Evolvability suppression to stabilize far-sighted adaptations.

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The opportunistic character of adaptation through natural selection can lead to evolutionary pathologies--situations in which traits evolve that promote the extinction of the population. Such pathologies include imprudent predation and other forms of habitat overexploitation, or the tragedy of the commons, adaptation to temporally unreliable resources, cheating and other antisocial behavior, infectious pathogen...

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