How development may direct evolution

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 353-370

  Garson, Justin ^a   Wang, Linton ^a   Sarkar, Sahotra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Adaptive walks; Developmental evolutionary biology; Evolution and development; Evolutionary developmental biology; Hypercube models

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0037594519     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023996321257     Document Type: Article

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