About the Authors

Pouyan Chamanian

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Origins Institute and Dept of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Paul G. Higgs

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

higgsp@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Origins Institute and Dept of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.