DECOUPLED SELECTION. “In addition, holometaboly is hypothesised to have led to increased evolvability (e.g. an increased capacity for adaptive evolution, due to an expansion of baseline phenotypic variation upon which selection can act), and a concomitant decoupling of selective pressures across different life cycle stages.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.12313/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022