Evolutionary capacitance
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evolutionary-capacitance-200-5975204
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Evolutionary capacitance
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Evolutionary capacitance is the storage and release of variation, just as electric capacitors store and release charge. Living systems are robust to mutations. This means that living systems accumulate genetic variation without the variation having a phenotypic effect. But when the system is disturbed, robustness breaks down, and the variation has phenotypic effects and is subject to the full force of natural selection. An evolutionary capacitor is a molecular switch mechanism that can "toggle"
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Evolutionary biology hypothesis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_capacitance
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2024-04-17T03:59:17Z
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