Developmental Plasticity

The ability of an organism to alter its developmental path in response to environmental or internal signals.

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Plasticityconcept0.827
Property of minds to adapt to radical changes in substrate, form, and embodiment across lifetime and evolution.
Reproductive Plasticityconcept0.823
Plasticity in reproduction timing or mode cued by collective context, equalizing fitnesses in egalitarian transitions
phenotypic plasticityconcept0.821
Capacity of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to environment; a key enabler for evolution.
Regulative Plasticityconcept0.814
The ability of biological structures to adjust to perturbations (injury, internal modifications) and still accomplish adaptive tasks across multiple problem spaces.
Plasticity Of Lifeconcept0.809
Plasticity of the Selfconcept0.800
The Self is not fixed; its boundaries, goals, and substrate can change during the lifetime of an agent.
Developmental Physiologyconcept0.784
The critical layer of physiological processes that operates between genotype and anatomical phenotype; controls how genomic information generates functional anatomy.
Developmental Memoryconcept0.783
Information about body structure that persists across cellular turnover and regeneration.