Escape from homeostasis.

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Many physiological systems, from gene networks to biochemistry to whole organism physiology, exhibit homeostatic mechanisms that keep certain variables within a fairly narrow range. Because homeostatic mechanisms buffer traits against environmental and genetic variation they allow the accumulation of cryptic genetic variation. Homeostatic mechanisms are never perfect and can be destabilized by mutations in genes...

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