Contingency, convergence and hyper-astronomical numbers in biological evolution
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- 作者：Ard A. Louis ard.louis@physics.ox.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Genotype&ndash ; phenotype maps ; Bias in evolution ; Arrival of variation ; Extended evolutionary synthesis
- 刊名：Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：August 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：58
- 期：Complete
- 页码：107-116
- 全文大小：823 K
文摘
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The space of genetic possibilities is hyper-astronomically and unsearchably large.
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The size of these spaces may have influenced the founders of the Modern Synthesis.
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Genotype-phenotype maps can show a strong bias towards as subset of all phenotypes.
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Such bias may explain certain types of evolutionary convergence.
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Contingency in the genotype space does not imply contingency in phenotype space.