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• Can Evolution Exploit Physiological And Morphogenetic Plasticity Toquestion0.802
• What features of morphogenesis enable evolution to search a difficult space with pleiotropy, degeneracy, and redundancy so rapidly and effectively?question0.769
  Core open problem: asks how cellular competency affords evolutionary speed and robustness despite the ruggedness of the genotype-phenotype mapping.
• How do organisms achieve robustness and plasticity simultaneously in novel circumstances?question0.763
  Core question motivating bioengineering studies: how can biological systems adapt to unexpected perturbations while maintaining coherence?
• Robustness in morphogenesis is achieved through plasticity and multiscale problem-solving, not hardwired repeatability.hypothesis0.762
  Developmental robustness across perturbations arises from the cellular competency to reach the same goal by different means, not from fixed local rules; higher-order robustness.
• The larger task of making these processes genuinely morphogenetic so that they generate deeper and more coherent living structure—still lies on the horizon.claim0.761
• How Do Morphogenetic Systems Establish And Maintain Boundariesquestion0.753
• Sharing of stress between cells facilitates morphogenesis and increases robustness of morphogenetic outcomes.hypothesis0.748
  Prior hypothesis tested in the paper; from Levin 2022.
• The plasticity of bodies and minds greatly potentiates evolvability.claim0.745
  Multi-scale competency enables organisms to tolerate mutations and speed up evolutionary search.