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Why are individuals so different from each other?

Heredity - 1 Oct 2015

Bateson P

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An important contributor to the differences between individuals derives from their plasticity. Such plasticity is widespread in organisms from the simple to the most complex. Adaptability plasticity enables the organism to cope with a novel challenge not previously encountered by its ancestors. Conditional plasticity appears to have evolved from repeated challenges from the environment so that the organism...

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PMID: 25407080
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2014.103
PMCID: PMC4815455

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