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mechanism sanderP contributed on 27-01-2022 14:53

Thank you Julia for your lecture notes. I don't fully understand what you mean with "Evolution is about a reconstruction of the history of traits, NOT about their underlying mechanisms." Most biological mechanisms are in fact a set of traits - not considering the evolutionary origin of these traits leading to a certain trait might create confusion on convergence versus homology. Or do I interpret the word 'mechanism' wrongly here?

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