Discontinuity in evolution: How different levels of organization imply pre-adaptation
| Author(s) : | Domenico Parisi Stefano Nolfi Orazio Miglino, |
| Publisher : | N/A |
| Publication Date : | 1996 |
| ISSN : | N/A |
| Abstract : | 1. INTRODUCTION acts as a major determinant of the direction taken by Although sequences of nucleotide bases in DNA and amino acids in proteins appear to mutate at approximately constant rates, evolution seems to have been anything but steady. In fact, most dramatic changes in evolution occurred rather, |