IRREVERSIBLE EXPLOITATION. “Complex life styles are often adaptations that exploit transient opportunities for growth or dispersal. Metamorphosis is the process whereby the organism irreversibly switches its adaptations from one of these functions to the other. Reproduction can occur in either the growth or the dispersal stage.”
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2096903?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022