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  • Spandrels of the Cell Nucleus

    Spandrels of the Cell Nucleus

    Irina Solovei, Leonid Mirny,Spandrels of the cell nucleus,Current Opinion in Cell Biology,Volume 90,2024,102421,ISSN 0955-0674,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2024.102421.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955067424001005) “S.J. Gould and R. Lewontin in their famous “Spandrels paper” (1979) argued that many anatomical elements arise in evolution not due to their “current utility” but rather due to other “reasons for origin”, such as other developmental processes, physical constraints and…