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CANALIZATION OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS
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“This robustness (compatibility with a larger set of environmental conditions) can be a target of evolution, as argued by Waddington and others [36–38].”
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“We frame this issue using the concept of developmental canalization88, whereby natural selection on developmental programmes in humans has led to robustness in a range of genetic or environmental perturbations89,90: typical development occurs along a ‘track’ (FIG. 1c).”
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“In addition, most studies recruit survivors of the original birth cohorts. This means all participants must have survived in order to observe whether they get the outcome of interest. Selection of participants on surviving their genetic make-up and the outcome of interest or a competing risk of the outcome effectively applies covariable adjustment on survival into the estimates.173–175”
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- Authors
- WADDINGTON, C. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- WADDINGTON, C. H.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1942-11
- Volume
- 150
- Issue
- 3811
- Pages
- 563-565
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2094902224
- Cited by
- 3,255
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 111 · 2025: 127 · 2024: 122 · 2023: 109 · 2022: 162 · 2021: 140 · 2020: 168 · 2019: 162 · 2018: 168 · 2017: 145 · 2016: 149 · 2015: 192 · 2014: 150 · 2013: 172 · 2012: 127
- FWCI
- 1.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- inheritance of acquired characteristics, Lamarckism, use and disuse, natural selection, random mutation, gene-environment interaction, adaptive evolution, heritable variation
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