Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 967-976

  Wagner, Günter P ^a   Altenberg, Lee ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Maui High Performance Computing Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; evolution of development; evolutionary computation; genetic representations; modularity; pleiotropy; quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EVOLVABILITY; GENETIC REPRESENTATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; RECOMBINATION; SELECTION;

EID: 0029661332     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02339.x     Document Type: Review

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