Selection on the evolution rate as one of factors defining the morphology of multi-cellular organisms


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Evolution of multicellular organisms was accompanied by multiple extinctions, after which the survived phyletic lineages started to conquer the free ecological space. The question arises: how the selection for adaptation to new environment could affect the organism morphology? The rate of evolutionary change of a structure depends predominantly on the number of loci that control its development. As this number increased in the course of evolution, it is hypothesized that the evolutionary trend for complication of organisms is the consequence of selection for the rate of evolution.

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Vladimir A Berdnikov

Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, RF

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