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What features of morphogenesis enable evolution to search a difficult space with pleiotropy, degeneracy, and redundancy so rapidly and effectively?

Core open problem: asks how cellular competency affords evolutionary speed and robustness despite the ruggedness of the genotype-phenotype mapping.

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Darwin's agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology

(2023) · Levin, Michael

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Evolution actually searches not only genotype space but a more tractable space of behavior-shaping signals that exploit cellular intelligence.
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Central thesis of the paper.
The multiscale competency architecture (MCA) speeds evolutionary search by providing generalization, reliability, tractable search space, cryptic variation, and functional intermediates.
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Main functional claim about MCA.

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Morphogenesis guarantees that coherent wholes will form even while the piecemeal process allows each place to be unique.claim0.827
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