TOUGH OLD IDEA. “The concept that, during development, different parts of an organism could be in competition with each other is old, and intuitive, but has proven difficult to demonstrate in practice. One reason for this difficulty may be that resource allocation tradeoffs are difficult to measure in organisms that grow and feed continuously, because changes in demands on developmental resources can be met by changes in resource acquisition.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022