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Undermining the Baldwin expediting effect: does phenotypic plasticity accelerate evolution?

Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 2000

Ancel L W

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The claim that phenotypic plasticity speeds up evolution towards a target phenotype is a recent incarnation of the Baldwin effect. To differentiate this theory from earlier interpretations of Baldwin's ideas, we name it the Baldwin expediting effect. Models that demonstrate this effect assume an extreme fitness scenario which bestows high fitness upon a single optimal phenotype and treats all other phenotypes as...

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PMID: 11162789
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2000.1484

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