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concept:developmental-physiologyDevelopmental Physiology
The critical layer of physiological processes that operates between genotype and anatomical phenotype; controls how genomic information generates functional anatomy.
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- Autoencoder Architecture (Variational)associated_withA machine-learning analogy: evolution learns both an encoding (genome compression) and a decoder (morphogenetic process); explains how evolution avoids overfitting and evolves general-purpose problem-solving.
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- MorphogenesisimplementsProcess by which cellular collectives generate large-scale structure and form; presented as a collective intelligence problem.
- The unsolvable problem of determining which protein sequences must be encoded to produce a desired large-scale anatomical form; a consequence of morphogenesis being highly emergent and irreversible.
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- Temporally extended process coordinating plastic expression of components to produce a collective phenotype, e.g., differentiation in multicellular bodies
- The ability of an organism to alter its developmental path in response to environmental or internal signals.
- Experimental practice revealing ancient pre-neural mechanisms; grounds the possibility of consciousness in non-brain substrates.
- Field studying the relationship between evolution and development.
- Information about body structure that persists across cellular turnover and regeneration.
- Population structure mechanism implementing genetic assortment; cited as example of individuation mechanism in multicellularity.