Genetic Assimilation of an Acquired Character

Waddington, C. H. (1953). Genetic Assimilation of an Acquired Character. Evolution.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1953

DOI

10.2307/2405747

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2405747

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Domain-specific

• Baldwin Effect
  • Boundary contrast: Waddington's heat-shock assimilation. Waddington's stress-induced crossveinless phenotype illustrates the broader Genetic Assimilation parent, not the Baldwin child, because no learned or practiced behavior is the precursor

    This sourceWaddington's original heat-shock experiment, in which an environmentally induced crossveinless phenotype is genetically assimilated; the placement of the case under genetic assimilation rather than the Baldwin effect is this article's own classification.

• Genetic Assimilation
  • Genetic assimilation is the evolutionary process by which a phenotype that initially appears only when an organism encounters an environmental or plastic trigger comes to be expressed with less of that trigger, and eventually without it, because natural selection favors heritable variants that produce the phenotype more readily

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