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@article{citeulike:2135809, abstract = {In recent years, biologists have increasingly been asking whether the ability to evolve — the evolvability — of biological systems, itself evolves, and whether this phenomenon is the result of natural selection or a by-product of other evolutionary processes. The concept of evolvability, and the increasing theoretical and empirical literature that refers to it, may constitute one of several pillars on which an extended evolutionary synthesis will take shape during the next few years, although much work remains to be done on how evolvability comes about.}, address = {Massimo Pigliucci is at the Department of Ecology \&\#38; Evolution, Stony Brook University, 650 Life Science Building, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA. pigliucci@genotypebyenvironment.org.}, author = {Pigliucci, Massimo}, citeulike-article-id = {2135809}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2278}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2278}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18059367}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18059367}, day = {01}, doi = {10.1038/nrg2278}, issn = {1471-0056}, journal = {Nature Reviews Genetics}, keywords = {evolution, evolution\_of\_evolvability, evolvability}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {75--82}, posted-at = {2009-11-03 05:48:45}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Is evolvability evolvable?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2278}, volume = {9}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2135809 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2135809 N2 - In recent years, biologists have increasingly been asking whether the ability to evolve — the evolvability — of biological systems, itself evolves, and whether this phenomenon is the result of natural selection or a by-product of other evolutionary processes. The concept of evolvability, and the increasing theoretical and empirical literature that refers to it, may constitute one of several pillars on which an extended evolutionary synthesis will take shape during the next few years, although much work remains to be done on how evolvability comes about. IS - 1 JF - Nature Reviews Genetics SN - 1471-0056 AD - Massimo Pigliucci is at the Department of Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University, 650 Life Science Building, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA. pigliucci@genotypebyenvironment.org. EP - 82 TI - Is evolvability evolvable? PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 9 SP - 75 KW - evolution KW - evolution_of_evolvability KW - evolvability AU - Pigliucci, Massimo PY - 2008/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2278 ER -