Developmental bias predicts 60 million years of wing shape evolution.

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The degree to which developmental biases affect trait evolution is subject to much debate. Here, we first quantify fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of developmental variability, i.e., the propensity of developmental systems to create some phenotypic variants more often than others, and show that it predicts phenotypic and standing genetic variation as well as deep macroevolutionary divergence in wing shape in...

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