Plasticity-led evolution as an intrinsic property of developmental gene regulatory networks.

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The modern evolutionary synthesis seemingly fails to explain how a population can survive a large environmental change: the pre-existence of heritable variants adapted to the novel environment is too opportunistic, whereas the search for new adaptive mutations after the environmental change is so slow that the population may go extinct. Plasticity-led evolution, the initial environmental induction of a novel...

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