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An evolutionary tipping point in a changing environment.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2017
Osmond Matthew M, Klausmeier Christopher A
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Populations can persist in directionally changing environments by evolving. Quantitative genetic theory aims to predict critical rates of environmental change beyond which populations go extinct. Here, we point out that all current predictions effectively assume the same specific fitness function. This function causes selection on the standing genetic variance of quantitative traits to become increasingly strong...
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