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The major transitions in evolution

✍ Scribed by Arnold I. Miller

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 48 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 1076-2787
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199705/06)2:5<40::aid-cplx9>3.0.co;2-o

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✦ Synopsis

diverse. The process of hypervariable plasticity followed by selection is as common as it is inelegant; it is so simple and powerful a scheme that real-world organisms have evolved versions of it over and over again.

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