Pleiotropic scaling of gene effects and the |[lsquo]|cost of complexity|[rsquo]|

As perceived by Darwin, evolutionary adaptation by the processes of mutation and selection is difficult to understand for complex features that are the product of numerous traits acting in concert, for example the eye or the apparatus of flight. Typically, mutations simultaneously affect multiple phenotypic characters.

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