Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability.

Wagner, G. P., & Altenberg, L. (1996). Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability. Evolution, 50(3), 967-976.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1996

DOI

10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02339.x

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02339.x

Cited from

library_information_science, systems_cybernetics

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Conway's Law
  • Developmental biology — body-plan modularity tracks the modular decomposition of gene-regulatory networks; segments, limb fields, and organ systems are the phenotypic image of regulatory modules whose internal connectivity is dense and between-module connectivity sparse.

    This sourceBody-plan modularity tracks the modular decomposition of gene-regulatory networks — dense within-module, sparse between-module connectivity — the biological analogue of the producer-to-artifact imprint. (

• Gall's Law
  • In biological evolution and evolvability theory, Darwinian selection requires each ancestral form to be viable in its own environment, so a complex organ implies a chain of functional intermediate organs each useful at the time; evolvability research formalizes this as connectivity of the viable region of genotype-space.

    This sourceFormalizes evolvability in terms of the connectivity of the viable region of genotype space, requiring each ancestral form (and intermediate) to be viable for selection to traverse a path.

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