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The maintenance of heritable variation through social competition.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2008

Harris W Edwin, McKane Alan J, Wolf Jason B

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The paradoxical persistence of heritable variation for fitness-related traits is an evolutionary conundrum that remains a preeminent problem in evolutionary biology. Here we describe a simple mechanism in which social competition results in the evolutionary maintenance of heritable variation for fitness related traits. We demonstrate this mechanism using a genetic model with two primary assumptions: the...

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PMID: 18031305
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00302.x

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