Respuesta al comentario sobre "Las compensaciones evolutivas, la óptimalidad de Pareto y la geometría del espacio

Oren Shoval1, Hila Sheftel, Guy Shinar

  • 1Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 16, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio confirma que las compensaciones entre tareas limitan los fenotipos a espacios de rasgos de baja dimensión, incluso en entornos de alta dimensión. Las pruebas estadísticas validaron estas predicciones contra las preocupaciones recientes, reforzando la teoría de las restricciones evolutivas.

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