Patterns of integration and modularity in the primate skeleton: a review.

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The question of how complex morphologies evolve, given constraints imposed by genetic, developmental and functional factors, has been a topic of inquiry for many decades. In the mid-twentieth century the study of morphological trait covariation, and the implications of this for evolutionary diversification, was developed under the general concept of "morphological integration". Given the polygenic inheritance...

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