The cellular substrate of evolutionary novelty.

Abstract excerpt

A major challenge in biology is comprehending how complex multicellular novelties evolve. Central to this problem is explaining how qualitatively new phenotypic traits - typically the focus of comparative developmental and macroevolutionary studies above the species level - can become established through population genetic processes. Here, we suggest that a resolution may be found by acknowledging the fundamental...

Topics

• Biological Evolution
• Animals
• Phenotype
• Gene Expression