Elastic, not plastic species: Frozen plasticity theory and the origin of adaptive evolution in sexually reproducing organisms

Abstract

Frozen plasticity theory, which includes the Darwinian model of evolution as a special case – the evolution of species in a plastic state, not only offers plenty of new predictions to be tested, but also provides explanations for a much broader spectrum of known biological phenomena than classic evolutionary theories.

Keywords

• Elastic
• not
• plastic
• species:
• Frozen
• plasticity
• theory
• and
• the
• origin
• adaptive
• evolution
• sexually
• reproducing
• organisms