Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments

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Summary

It is concluded that adaptive plasticity that places populations close enough to a new phenotypic optimum for directional selection to act is the only Plasticity that predictably enhances fitness and is most likely to facilitate adaptive evolution on ecological time-scales in new environments.

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2007-06-01
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Phenotypic plasticity, Biology, Plasticity, Evolutionary biology, Adaptation (eye)

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