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Why would natural selection imply compounding?

• pdog 9y ago
  The combined effect from multiple genes is either linear (assuming no interaction) or superlinear (assuming some interaction) because other nonlinear effects are difficult for natural selection to operate on. Natural selection is the only process known to cause adaptations.
  • riffraff 9y ago
    but my question was, why should it be superlinear? Genes with linear interactions would still grant evolutionary advantages.