On the origin of modular variation

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1549-1556

  Lipson, Hod ^a   Pollack, Jordan B ^b   Suh, Nam P ^c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Development; Evolvability; Modularity; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION;

EID: 0036695665     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01466.x     Document Type: Article

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