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Adaptations: Meanings

  1. Hudson K Reeve,
  2. Paul W Sherman

Published Online: 19 APR 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001707

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Reeve, H. K. and Sherman, P. W. 2001. Adaptations: Meanings. eLS. .

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  1. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

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  1. Published Online: 19 APR 2001
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Abstract

An adaptation is the phenotypic variant that has the highest reproductive success among a well-specified set of variants in a given environment.

Keywords:

  • adaptation;
  • teleonomy;
  • evolutionary history;
  • phenotype existence;
  • fitness
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