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Robustness and evolvability: a paradox resolved.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jan 2008

Wagner Andreas

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Understanding the relationship between robustness and evolvability is key to understand how living things can withstand mutations, while producing ample variation that leads to evolutionary innovations. Mutational robustness and evolvability, a system's ability to produce heritable variation, harbour a paradoxical tension. On one hand, high robustness implies low production of heritable phenotypic variation. On...

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PMID: 17971325
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1137
PMCID: PMC2562401

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