Nonadaptive Aspects of Evolution
- 1 July 1960
- journal article
- letter
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 94 (877) , 305-308
- https://doi.org/10.1086/282132
Abstract
Mechanisms are discussed by which individuals within a population and evolving groups can develop phenotypes (or modal phenotypes) not in every way adaptive to their environments. This, however, seems subordinate in importance to adaptive evolution. Examples from natural populations are given.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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