DECOUPLING OF PROCESSES. “One explanation for the abundance and long-term persistence of complex life cycles is that they represent adaptive mechanisms for decoupling the developmental processes that underlie morphological traits of alternative phases, thereby allowing phases to respond independently to different selective forces.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/2937184/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022