A model of developmental canalization, applied to human cranial form.

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Developmental mechanisms that canalize or compensate perturbations of organismal development (targeted or compensatory growth) are widely considered a prerequisite of individual health and the evolution of complex life, but little is known about the nature of these mechanisms. It is even unclear if and how a "target trajectory" of individual development is encoded in the organism's genetic-developmental system...

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