The robustness and evolvability of continuously varying traits.

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Theoretical work on the evolution of simple phenotypes with discrete states, such as RNA and protein structures, has shown that the most evolvable phenotypes have intermediate levels of mutational robustness, so long as we let neutral mutations cause the diversification of a population's mutationally accessible phenotypic neighborhood. But whether this applies to more complex phenotypes is unclear. Here, I...

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