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An “active” replicator is “a replicator that has some causal influence on its own probability of being propagated,” whereas a “passive” replicator is never transcribed and has no phenotypic expression whatsoever (1982a, p. 47).

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  1. pronoun Whatever.
  2. adjective Whatever: no power whatsoever.

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  • He has left everything rather than submit to any obligation whatsoever, and then, with age, one's needs lessen. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • That you shall not send me any modern, or (as they are called) new publications, in English whatsoever, save and excepting any writing, prose or verse, of (or reasonably presumed to be of) Walter Scott, Crabbe, Moore, Campbell, Rogers, —  Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
  • An “active” replicator is “a replicator that has some causal influence on its own probability of being propagated,” whereas a “passive” replicator is never transcribed and has no phenotypic expression whatsoever (1982a, p. 47). —  Units and Levels of Selection
  • Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them, since he hath given them (as St. Peter says) [words in Greek], whatsoever is necessary for the conveniences of life and information of virtue; and has put within the reach of their discovery, the comfortable provision for this life, and the way that leads to a better. —  An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2
  • (religico-medical rites), and whatsoever is asked on those occasions will be granted, and long life given to the sick. " —  Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
 

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  1. from Middle English whatsoever; from what + so + ever. Cf. what so and whatsomever.
 

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/hwɑtsəˈɛvər/
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