Article
The ecological causes of evolution.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Oct 2011
MacColl Andrew D C
Abstract excerpt
Natural selection is the process that results in adaptive evolution, but it is not the cause of evolution. The cause of natural selection and, therefore, of adaptive evolution, is any environmental factor (agent of selection) that results in differential fitness among phenotypes. Surprisingly little is known about selective agents, how they interact or their relative importance across taxa. Here, I outline three...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Environment
- Genetic Variation
- Phenotype
- Plants
- Selection, Genetic