The evolutionary consequences of behavioural plasticity.

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When environments change and phenotypes become suboptimal, organisms often mitigate the costs of maladaptation with behavioural adjustments. Although this "buffering" of natural selection is widespread, its evolutionary consequences are poorly understood. Here, I use evolutionary simulations to explore how behavioural plasticity shapes the tempo and mode of adaptive evolution. My results indicate that this...

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