Neophenogenesis: a developmental theory of phenotypic evolution.

doi:10.1016/s0022-5193(05)80260-7

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Neophenogenesis: a developmental theory of phenotypic evolution.

Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Dec 1990

Johnston T D, Gottlieb G

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An important task for evolutionary biology is to explain how phenotypes change over evolutionary time. Neo-Darwinian theory explains phenotypic change as the outcome of genetic change brought about by natural selection. In the neo-Darwinian account, genetic change is primary; phenotypic change is...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Environment
Genetics
Growth
Models, Biological
Phenotype

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