Evolvability

Kirschner, M., & Gerhart, J. (1998). Evolvability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(15), 8420-8427.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1998

DOI

10.1073/pnas.95.15.8420

Link

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.15.8420

Cited from

biology_ecology, economics_finance

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Antifragility
  • Evolutionary biology: Populations under fluctuating selection, frequent recombination, or environmental noise can evolve greater evolvability — the capacity to generate useful variation — so that the lineage's long-run fitness rises with the very environmental turbulence that culls individuals.

    This sourceDefines evolvability as a lineage's capacity to generate heritable, selectable phenotypic variation; the basis for the claim that populations under fluctuating selection and recombination can raise long-run lineage fitness with the very turbulence that culls individuals; supports marker 070.

• Exaptation
  • Kirschner and Gerhart (1998) formalize exactly this link between latent structural surplus and a system's capacity to generate viable novelty.

    This sourceDefines evolvability as a lineage's capacity to generate heritable, useful phenotypic variation, linking latent structural surplus and flexible/redundant machinery to a system's capacity to produce viable novelty.

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