Study questions 'cost of complexity' in evolution

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Sun, 03/30/2008 - 23:00

Higher organisms do not have a "cost of complexity" -- or slowdown in the evolution of complex traits -- according to a report by researchers at Yale and Washington University in Nature.


 

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