Bias in the arrival of variation can dominate over natural selection in Richard Dawkins's biomorphs

Biomorphs, Richard Dawkins’s iconic model of morphological evolution, are traditionally used to demonstrate the power of natural selection to generate biological order from random mutations. Here we show that biomorphs can also be used to illustrate how developmental bias shapes adaptive evolutionar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martin, NS, Camargo, CQ, Louis, AA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2024