The low cost of recombination in creating novel phenotypes: Recombination can create new phenotypes while disrupting well-adapted phenotypes much less than mutation.

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Recombination is often considered a disruptive force for well-adapted phenotypes, but recent evidence suggests that this cost of recombination can be small. A key benefit of recombination is that it can help create proteins and regulatory circuits with novel and useful phenotypes more efficiently than point mutation. Its effectiveness stems from the large-scale reorganization of genotypes that it causes, which...

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