The Importance of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolution

This is what we would call phenotypic plasticity or skull is responding. This feature is a response to the environment. There's a lot of debate that goes both ways, but Phenotypic Plasticity could constrain evolution and it could potentially accelerate it. So by constitutive, I mean, they always express this external protuberance because your body already has the capacity to do it if it needs to. But my ability though, for it to grow longer, my plasticity, my phenotypical, phenotype plasticity, that's not, that's just what it is. Exactly.

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