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Canalization and genetic assimilation: Reassessing the radicality of the Waddingtonian concept of inheritance of acquired characters.

Seminars in cell & developmental biology - 1 Apr 2019

Loison Laurent

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Genetic assimilation is often mixed up with the Baldwin effect. For Waddington, genetic assimilation was both a phenomenon and a specific mechanism of adaptive evolution which was grounded in the concept of canalization. This theoretical link between canalization and genetic assimilation, which was pivotal in Waddington's view, has been weakened since the early 1960s. The aim of the present article is to...

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PMID: 29763656
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.05.009

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