What is Evolvability?

Sterelny, Kim

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What is Evolvability?

Date

2007

Authors

Sterelny, Kim

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

This chapter discusses evolvability. Somewhere between 700 and 800 million years ago, in a protist lineage closely related to the living choanoflagellates, cell division resulted in cell aggregation. That lineage prospered and became a source for Metazoa: