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A model for development and evolution of complex morphological structures.

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1 May 1991

Atchley W R, Hall B K

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How 'complex' or composite morphological structures like the mammalian craniomandibular region arise during development and how they are altered during evolution are two major unresolved questions in biology. Herein, we have described a model for the development and evolution of complex morphological structures. The model assumes that natural selection acts upon an array of phenotypes generated by variation in a...

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Animals
Biological Evolution
Genetic Variation
Mandible
Models, Biological
Models, Genetic

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PMID: 1863686
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1991.tb01138.x

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