Epigenetics decouples mutational from environmental robustness. Did it also facilitate multicellularity?

PLoS Comput Biol · 2014 · PMC3945085 · PMID 24604070

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highly significantp = 8.62×10 −22actually significant

2 inset), a highly significant difference (p = 8.62×10 −22 , Fisher's exact test) suggesting that introducing the epigenetic mechanism enabled networks to evolve a strongly increased capacity for adding new input/output states.

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