Article
On the origin and evolution of major morphological characters.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1 Nov 2006
Budd Graham E
Abstract excerpt
Although the mathematical principles underpinning population-level evolution are now well studied, the origin and evolution of morphological novelties has received far less attention. Here, a broad but general theory for how this sort of change takes place is outlined, relying on functional continuity, least-constrained components of morphology, redundancy and preadaptation. At least four distinct sorts of...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Body Constitution
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Models, Biological
- Paleontology
- Phenotype