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A Quantitative Genetic Perspective on Adaptive Evolution

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Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution

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In order to understand adaptive evolution, we need to determine the effects of factors which shape and limit the expression of the essentially infinite possibilities of the genetic system. These factors are environment, and history as expressed in the present structure of the genetic system. Thus the study of adaptive evolution is the concern of both ecology and genetics, and we stress here the intimate relationship between them.

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Barker, J.S.F., Thomas, R.H. (1987). A Quantitative Genetic Perspective on Adaptive Evolution. In: Loeschcke, V. (eds) Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72770-2_2

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