PHENOTYPIC SELECTION. “Natural selection does not act directly on genes, but on the phenotypes they allow the cell that encodes them to achieve. Genetic mutation leads to genetic diversification, and hence to phenotypic diversity. Natural selection sanctioned by death is a process of competition between phenotypes whereby genomes allowing for poorly adapted phenotypes do not get transmitted into the next generation, while genomes that allow fitter phenotypes become selected.
http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v9/n4/full/4400950a.html
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022