The plausibility of life: resolving Darwin's dilemma
Marc W. Kirschner • Yale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300119770
The plausibility of life: resolving Darwin's dilemma
Marc W. Kirschner • Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300119771 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300119770 · 2005
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Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart address the fundamental mechanisms of evolutionary innovation by examining how organisms generate the phenotypic variation necessary for natural selection. By integrating insights from developmental biology and molecular genetics, the authors propose the concept of facilitated variation to explain how complex biological systems evolve with remarkable efficiency and structural plausibility.
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