Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt

Why evolvability appears to have increased over evolutionary time is an important unresolved biological question. Unlike most candidate explanations, this paper proposes that increasing evolvability can result without any pressure to adapt. The insight is that if evolvability is heritable, then an u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lehman, Joel, Stanley, Kenneth O.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634764/