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LETHAL TRAIT LOSS IN PLANKTON. "The so-called spiral determinate cleavage of many planktotrophic spiralian species so rigidly casts the fate of each embryonic cell early in the four- and eight-cell stage of embryo development that it is difficult (although not impossible) to imagine that mutations causing this embryology to deviate from the norm would be anything but lethal." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

LETHAL LOSS OF TRAITS. "The typical explanation for the conservation of ancestral body plan traits is the presence of pivotal developmental processes whose mutation would be difficult or impossible for process so basic to how an organism achieves its organized growth that any significant deviation would result in death or severe impairment." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

TRAIT GHOSTS. "It is undeniable that some shared ancestral traits have been conserved long after their initial adaptive significance has vanished." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

NON-ADAPTIVE TRAITS. "Charles Darwin observed that many traits are a consequence of descent from a last common ancestor that are themselves the products of earlier, presumably adaptive evolution. Darwin maintained that currently adaptive traits can and do co-exist with highly conserved traits having no apparent adaptive purpose." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

SCALING CONSTRAINTS. "These biomechanical `constraints' undoubtedly evoke morphological or anatomical reconciliations that scale with respect to body size, geometry and shape rather than with how a particular body plan achieves its organized growth." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

“PROGRAMMABLE MATTER stores externally inputted energy to be released to do specific work at a specific time. Often, physical changes of phase or properties of materials are exploited to store this energy as coded information. "Information" in this context simply means a signal that can induce a physical change that is capable of doing some kind of work.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter View in LinkedIn

THE FRONTIER. “Phase-change memory is arguably the most advanced resistive memory technology.” https://lnkd.in/dCBsa35 View in LinkedIn