Epigenetic variation can promote adaptation by smoothing rugged fitness landscapes.

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Heritable non-genetic phenotypic variation-broadly, epigenetics-can potentially influence evolutionary outcomes as direct targets of selection or through interactions with genetic variation. While their evolutionary benefits in generating phenotypic diversity in changing environments are well-characterized, there has been relatively little consideration of how the joint influence of epigenetic changes and...

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