… changes are reversible within a single individual organism, and whether the … of phenotypic
plasticity, we examine the ways in which they can help us to understand organismal design. …

… produce so many different phenotypes? Modern biology … The second general mechanism is
phenotypic modification … either as phenotypic plasticity or as phenotypic flexibility, depending …

… Biological functions are dependent on the temperature of the organism. Animals may respond
to … Simplified representation of experimental design incorporating reversible phenotypic …

… flexibility that integrates ecological endocrinology with theoretical and empirical studies of
phenotypic … variation in the scope and speed of flexibility, and provide suggestions for future …

… , on the basis of reversible phenotypic traits, the many ecological aspects of organismal …
Let us call them ‘rules of organismal design’ (including constraints on design). In Chapter 2 …

… organism developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility. … of interindividual genetic and
phenotypic variation may increase … our understanding of organismal design and differentiation …

… gives rise to a particular phenotype has limited the identification of … Our results demonstrate
that flexibility is an essential trait that … and design inhibitors with an evolutionary perspective. …

… at levels ranging from the redundant mapping of genotypes to phenotypes, up to the
morphological basis of whole-organism performance. This phenomenon may be involved in the …

Phenotypic flexibility spurious rejections) at the 5% level becomes prohibitive in studies
involving dozens (or hundreds) of repeated tests. As the research becomes more detailed–and …

… phenotypic flexibility are separate phenomena, based on first principles, we would predict
that: (1) developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility … At the whole- organism level, there …