The divergence of mean phenotypes under persistent directional selection.

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Numerous organismal traits, particularly at the cellular level, are likely to be under persistent directional selection across phylogenetic lineages. Unless all mutations affecting such traits have large enough effects to be efficiently selected in all species, gradients in mean phenotypes are expected to arise as a consequence of differences in the power of random genetic drift, which varies by approximately...

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