Debunking the idea of biological optimisation: quantitative biology to the rescue
The idea that plants would be efficient, frugal or optimised echoes the recurrent semantics of ‘blueprint’ and ‘program’ in molecular genetics. However, when analysing plants with quantitative approaches and systems thinking, we instead find that plants are the results of stochastic processes with m...
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Cambridge University Press
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Quantitative Plant Biology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2632882824000031/type/journal_article |