Article ID: CBB970270245

Natural selection, plasticity, and the rationale for largest-scale trends (2018)

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Many have argued that there is no reason why natural selection should cause directional increases in measures such as body size or complexity across evolutionary history as a whole. In this paper I argue that this conclusion does not hold for selection for adaptations to environmental variability, and that, given the inevitability of environmental variability, trends in adaptations to variability are an expected feature of evolution by natural selection. As a concrete instance of this causal structure, I outline how this may be applied to a trend in phenotypic plasticity.

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Authors & Contributors
Ruse, Michael
Bourrat, Pierrick
Bertoldi, Nicola
Paternotte, Cédric
Tamborini, Marco
Walsh, D. M.
Concepts
Evolution
Adaptation (biology)
Natural selection
Biology
Genetics
Philosophy of biology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
Sweden
Germany
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