Concepts
5 concepts
frequency-dependent selection
Selection where individual fitness depends on the local frequency rather than global frequency, creating population structure with groups varying in genetic and phenotypic composition
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...
evolutionary rescue
A process by which adaptive evolutionary change occurs sufficiently rapidly to counteract a decline in population size under initially unfavorable conditions
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
A principle stating that allele and genotype frequencies remain constant in a population under certain conditions
genetic constraints
Limitations on evolutionary divergence imposed by genetic architecture and patterns of genetic covariation
