The oligogenic view of adaptation.

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The traditional view is that evolution proceeds very slowly, over immense periods of time, driven by weak selection acting on innumerable genes of small effect. Recent studies of rapid evolution, in the laboratory and in the field, have given a radically different picture. Although beneficial mut...

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