Natural Selection and the origin of modules (Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio))

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  • Natural Selection and the origin of modules (Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio)) (literal)
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  • 2005-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Wagner, G. P., Mezey, J. & Calabretta, R. (2005)
    Natural Selection and the origin of modules
    MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
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  • Wagner, G. P., Mezey, J. & Calabretta, R. (literal)
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  • There is an emerging consensus about the existence of developmental and evolutionary modules and their importance for understanding the evolution of morphological phenotypes. Modules are considered important for the evolvability of complex organisms, the identification of independent characters and necessary for heterochrony. Methods to recognize and test for modularity are developed and comparative developmental data are reinterpreted in the context of the modularity concept. In contrast to the progress made in these areas, there is very little research on the origin of modules and the few results published about models for the origin of modules point in widely different directions. Currently there is no unitary explanation emerging for the evolution of modularity. This is surprising since modularity seems to be so common among higher organisms that one might expect a robust and unitary mechanism behind its origin. In this paper we want to review the current models and ideas for the evolutionary origin of modules. The majority of the models discussed below have been published in the years 2000 or 2001, and we thus feel that an overview might be useful. Another goal of this paper is to identify the range of open problems we face in explaining the ultimate causes of modularity. (literal)
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  • 1) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8106 2) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL 3) Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy (literal)
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  • W. Callabaut & D. Rasskin-Gutman (Eds.), Modularity. Understanding the development and evolution of complex natural systems (p. 33–49) (literal)
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