Molecular Labor Division: Its Cause and Consequence
- Resource Type
- Working Paper
- Authors
- Fu, Simon
- Source
- Subject
- Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules
Quantitative Biology - Genomics
- Language
Both external environmental selection and internal lower-level evolution are essential for an integral picture of evolution. This paper proposes that the division of internal evolution into DNA/RNA pattern formation (genotype) and protein functional action (phenotype) resolves a universal conflict between fitness and evolvability. Specifically, this paper explains how this universal conflict drove the emergence of genotype-phenotype division, why this labor division is responsible for the extraordinary complexity of life, and how the specific ways of genotype-phenotype mapping in the labor division determine the paths and forms of evolution and development.
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