Adaptive Landscapes

E. I. Svensson

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00054-8

Adaptive Landscapes

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'Adaptive Landscape' was first formulated as a heuristic model or metaphor for the evolutionary process by late population geneticist Sewall Wright in a famous paper published in 1932. The metaphor of an adaptive landscape with adaptive peaks of high fitness, separated by adaptive valleys of low fitness attracted a lot of interest from contemporary and later evolutionary biologists and inspired research in paleontology, genetics, ecology, evolutionary developmental biology and speciation, but has also generated considerable controversy. This review considers the theoretical and empirical influence of the adaptive landscape on evolutionary biology and discusses some of the past and remaining scientific controversies associated with this influential concept.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
Editors	Richard M. Kliman
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	9-15
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128004265
ISBN (Print)	9780128000496
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00054-8
Publication status	Published - 2016 Apr 14

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Evolutionary Biology

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Adaptive landscapes
Developmental biology
Ecology
Fitness peaks
Genetic drift
Phylogenetic comparative methods
Population genetics
Quantitative genetics
Selection
Speciation

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