The molecular origins of evolutionary innovations.

Abstract excerpt

The history of life is a history of evolutionary innovations, qualitatively new phenotypic traits that endow their bearers with new, often game-changing abilities. We know many individual examples of innovations and their natural history, but we know little about the fundamental principles of phenotypic variability that permit new phenotypes to arise. Most phenotypic innovations result from changes in three...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Environment
• Feedback, Physiological
• Gene Regulatory Networks
• Genetic Variation
• Genotype
• Humans
• Metabolic Networks and Pathways
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Molecular