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Adaptation and Natural Selection: Overview
Published Online: 22 MAR 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001706
Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Mitton, J. B. 2002. Adaptation and Natural Selection: Overview. eLS. .
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Abstract
Adaptation is both an evolutionary process and a product of natural selection: adaptation is a process of evolution in which traits are modified by natural selection; an adaptation is a phenotypic trait moulded by natural selection. In both cases the evolution is driven by natural selection.
Keywords:
- evolution;
- genetic variation;
- fitness
