PERSPECTIVE: COMPLEX ADAPTATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY

By Günter P. Wagner, Lee Altenberg. 1996

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Born to Learn: the Inspiration, Progress, and Future of Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks (2017, background): “selection criteria, the concepts of evolvability and scalability (Wagner and Altenberg, 1996; Pigliucci, 2008; Lehman and Stanley, 2013), the encoding of genetic information through the genotype-phenotype mapping processes (Wagner and Altenberg, 1996; Hornby et al.”
The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history (2009, unknown): “…fulﬁlls the deﬁnition of evolutionary module : a set of phenotypic features that are highly integrated by pleiotropic effects of the underlying genes, 6 and relatively isolated from other such sets by a paucity of pleiotropic effects (Wagner & Altenberg, 1996; Wagner, Mezey, & Calabretta, 2005).”
The genetics and evolution of fluctuating asymmetry (2005, background): “This is related to the idea of a “genotype–phenotype map” (Wagner & Altenberg 1996) but explicitly includes nongenetic factors as well as the genotype (Rice 2002).”
Building Developmental Integration into Functional Systems: Function-Induced Integration of Mandibular Shape (2009, background): “…traits are widely viewed as the primary causes of morphological integration at the individual level, shaping the patterns of stabilizing selection that direct the evolution of morphological integration at the population level (e.g., Cheverud 1982, 1996a; Wagner 1996; Wagner and Altenberg 1996).”
AI-GAs: AI-generating algorithms, an alternate paradigm for producing general artificial intelligence (2019, background): “In the literature of biological and computational evolution, this phenomenon is called evolvability [85, 86, 190, 29, 130, 189, 110].”
Robustness and Evolvability (2010, background): “Three quite different mechanisms have been proposed to explain the high evolvability of biological systems: modularity [2, 9], robustness [10] and recombination [11–14].”
Evaluating modularity in morphometric data: challenges with the RV coefficient and a new test measure (2016, unknown): “…and modularity has enjoyed renaissance, in part because of the recognition that patterns of modularity and integration can have profound effects on the direction of phenotypic evolution, and on how novel morphologies originate Atchley & Hall 1991; Cheverud 1996; Wagner & Altenberg 1996).”
Phenotypic Variability: Its Components, Measurement and Underlying Developmental Processes (2007, background): “Phenotypic variability is defined as the tendency or potential of an organism to vary (Wagner and Altenberg 1996) and corresponds to the range or distribution of potential variation.”
The genomics of local adaptation in trees: are we out of the woods yet? (2017, background): “…mutations, the former of which is ultimately determined by the direction and size of effect among a set of pleiotropic loci across a set of characters (see Arnold 1992; Wagner & Altenberg 1996; Hansen 2003, 2006; Wagner et al. 2007; Chevin et al. 2010b; Wagner & Zhang 2011; MacPherson et al. 2015).”
Modularity in cognition: framing the debate. (2006, background): “…in the evolutionary developmental biology literature, an aspect of the phenotype is developmentally modular to the degree that natural selection can act on it independent of other aspects of the phenotype (e.g., Griffiths, in press; Riedl, 1978; Schlosser & Wagner, 2004; Wagner & Altenberg, 1996).”
Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality (2013, background): “However, the very notion of development, as the counterpart of selection, suggests that there are possible trajectories, or “evolvability” (cf. Wagner and Altenberg, 1996), within organisms.”
Integration and Evolvability in Primate Hands and Feet (2009, background): “Importantly, Cheverud argued that pleiotropy is a key mechanism linking these four types of integration (see also Wagner 1996; Wagner and Altenberg 1996).”
Integrating micro- and macroevolutionary processes in community ecology (2003, background): “…be related to intrinsic features, such as population structure (Losos 1996), plasticity (e.g., Sultan 1995, Schlichting, in press), or evolvability (Wagner and Altenberg 1996), or alternatively, to differences in the strengths of selection pressures in different populations resulting from…”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Of particular relevance is the notion that modularity can favour evolvability, the capacity to generate heritable, selectable phenotypic variation (Hansen 2003; Kirschner &Gerhart 1998;Wagner & Altenberg 1996; West-Eberhard 2003).”