2007/12/04 by Simon Fu, Fu, Simon
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Animal Genetics and Reproduction #Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) #CRISPR and Genetic Engineering #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #FOS: Biological sciences #Genomics (q-bio.GN) #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #q-bio.BM #q-bio.GN #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0712.0462
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Both external environmental selection and internal lower-level evolution are essential for an integral picture of evolution. This paper proposes that the division of internal evolution into DNA/RNA pattern formation (genotype) and protein functional action (phenotype) resolves a universal conflict between fitness and evolvability. Specifically, this paper explains how this universal conflict drove the emergence of genotype-phenotype division, why this labor division is responsible for the extraordinary complexity of life, and how the specific ways of genotype-phenotype mapping in the labor division determine the paths and forms of evolution and development.