LETHAL LOSS OF TRAITS. “The typical explanation for the conservation of ancestral body plan traits is the presence of pivotal developmental processes whose mutation would be difficult or impossible for process so basic to how an organism achieves its organized growth that any significant deviation would result in death or severe impairment.”
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022