Adaptive landscape
adaptive landscape
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Definition
Glossary of "Evolution (4th ed.)" by Futuyma & Kirkpatrick (2017)
- A metaphor for the relationship, or mathematical function, between mean fitness of a population and the allele frequencies at one or more loci that affect fitness. Possible populations with allele frequencies that maximize mean fitness are represented as peaks on the metaphorical landscape.