The evolutionary consequences of epigenesis and neutral change: A conceptual approach at the organismal level.

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Living beings are autopoietic systems with highly context-dependent structural dynamics and interactions, that determine whether a disturbance in the genotype or environment will lead or not to phenotypic change. The concept of epigenesis entails how a change in the phenotype may not correspond to a change in the structure of an earlier developmental stage, including the genome. Disturbances of embryonic...

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