“…[T]he essence of a biological system is in the emergent properties of its interacting component parts. We can dismantle the system piece by piece, but the more we do that, the more we realize that these emergent properties can only be investigated when the parts are together”
Schlichting and Pigliucci in Phenotypic Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective
Schlichting and Pigliucci in Phenotypic Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective
