The end of the adaptive landscape metaphor?

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 625-638

  Kaplan, Jonathan ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive landscape; Bateson Dobzhansky Muller model; Fitness landscape; Gavrilets; Holey landscape; Metaphor; Peak shift; Shifting balance theory; Speciation; Wright

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LANDSCAPE; MODELING;

EID: 59849118242     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-008-9116-z     Document Type: Article

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