Evolutionary tradeoffs, Pareto optimality and the morphology of ammonite shells
Evolutionary tradeoffs, Pareto optimality and the morphology of ammonite shells
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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Organisms that need to perform multiple tasks face a fundamental tradeoff: no design can be optimal at all tasks at once. Recent theory based on Pareto optimality showed that such tradeoffs lead to a highly defined range of phenotypes, which lie in low-dimensional polyhedra in the space of traits. The vertices of these polyhedra are called archetyp...
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Evolutionary tradeoffs, Pareto optimality and the morphology of ammonite shells
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4404009
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4404009
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1752-0509
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1752-0509
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10.1186/s12918-015-0149-z
