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. 2018 Feb 5;2017(1):178-180.
doi: 10.1093/emph/eox020. eCollection 2017.

Developmental plasticity: Need to go beyond naïve thinking

Milind Watve  1
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Developmental plasticity: Need to go beyond naïve thinking

Milind Watve. Evol Med Public Health. .
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Pathways of developmental plasticity: Since none of the pathways are mutually exclusive and many pathways could be operational simultaneously, rather than any dichotomous classification, a path analysis approach or multiple predictions approach would work better for empirically testing the phenomenon. The developmental-activational plasticity is a continuum rather than a dichotomy and evolution along this continuum would depend upon the cost of reversing the phenotype versus the possible loss by mismatch
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