The canalization of an environmentally induced character is accounted for if it is an advantage for the adult animal to have some optimum degree of development of the character.
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canalization
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The tendency of a population to produce a relatively consistent phenotype in spite of genetic or environmental variations; relative insensitivity to genetic or environmental variations. (OED 2017)
- 1942
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Waddington, C.H. (1942). Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters. Nature 150, 563-565: 565.
- 1963
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A well-knit system of canalization tends to narrow down the evolutionary potential quite severely.
Mayr, E. (1963). Animal Species and Evolution: 218.