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local adaptation
An evolutionary process in which a population evolves to become more suited to its local environment through natural selection, resulting in higher fitness in the home environment compared to individu...
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evolutionary rescue
A process by which adaptive evolutionary change occurs sufficiently rapidly to counteract a decline in population size under initially unfavorable conditions
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genetic constraints
Limitations on evolutionary divergence imposed by genetic architecture and patterns of genetic covariation