Adaptation and the cost of complexity

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-20

  Orr, H Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Complexity; Fisher's geometric model; Fundamental theorem of natural selection; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COST; EVOLUTION;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0034025692     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00002.x     Document Type: Article

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