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The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles

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Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals

Part of the book series: Perspectives in vertebrate science ((PIVS,volume 6))

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It is postulated that the saltatory mechanisms of epigenesis are responsible for a sequence of homeorhetic steps separated by far-from-stabilized thresholds, and that during such thresholds changes in life history and novelties of evolution are created. The bifurcations at various times of epigenesis, inter alia, form two different sequences of ontogenetic intervals, one more generalized, the other more specialized — the so-called altricial ⇌ precocial homeorhetic states (alprehost). These are a result of variations which are constantly skewed by the tendency to specialize, and which are channelized via bifurcations into different stabilized states. These variations also form a substrate for self-organization. They decrease, with the tendency to specialize, until extinction or change become inevitable. The constant creation of altricial and precocial forms through generation lineages makes it possible to have at any time two answers prepared for any future co-evolving environment. The intraspecific mechanism of life-history significance may also result in evolutionary divergence of dominant and isolated taxa.

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Balon, E.K. (1989). The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles. In: Bruton, M.N. (eds) Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals. Perspectives in vertebrate science, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2605-9_24

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