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Left panel, Waddington's artistic drawing of an “epigenetic landscape” as a ball that falls to stable valleys from unstable ridges (adapted from Ref. 1). Right panel, bistability viewed as the fall of a ball from an unstable state on a ridge to a stable state in a valley. In phase variation, the valley state is metastable, and the ball periodically returns to the ridge.
