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A central concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution is that of adaptation through natural selection. This concept, properly used, yields a powerful tool to understand why particular phenotypic traits are found in certain organisms and not in others—a question which lies at the heart of the Darwinian revolution.
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Schmid-Hempel, P. (1990). In Search of Optima: Equilibrium Models of Phenotypic Evolution. In: Wöhrmann, K., Jain, S.K. (eds) Population Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74474-7_11
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