MCA generates cryptic variance: many mutations neutralized by developmental regulation persist as a hidden diversity pool exploitable in future environments.

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• MCA enables generalization: many genotypes map to the same functional phenotype, increasing robustness and speeding exploration.claim0.818
  Subclaim of how MCA speeds evolution.
• MCA allows evolution to mask negative pleiotropic effects and explore adaptive space more freely.hypothesis0.817
  Homeostatic modules correct for mutations locally, enabling independent evolution of traits.
• MCA creates a more tractable search space by smoothing the fitness landscape, mitigating the inverse problem and enabling survival of mutations that would otherwise be deleterious.claim0.815
  Subclaim.
• Genetic information must encode not only physical forms but also complex self-modifying control mechanisms for behavior and development.claim0.777
• MCA and its coarse-grained control layers (like bioelectric patterns) mitigate the inverse problem by providing a more linear relation between control signals and phenotypes.claim0.774
  Argues that intervening control layers decompose the genotype-phenotype mapping into two easier problems.
• Gene regulatory networks can evolve associative memory, storing and recalling multiple phenotypes from partial selective cues (Watson et al. 2010)finding0.770
  Demonstrates information integration in evolutionary systems with system-level selection
• Target morphology shifts occur despite the fact that all of the individual cells have unaltered normal genomes, showing that competent subunits can be pushed to implement diverse organism-scale goals by physiological signals.claim0.763
  Highlights the non-genetic control of large-scale anatomy.
• The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.claim0.758
  Analogy to biology, placing pattern languages as the genetic code for living built environments.