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Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution

By: stroud@gatech.edu
Date: March 19, 2025

Summary

Main Evolution can be predicted in the short term from a knowledge of selection and inheritance. However, in the long term evolution is unpredictable because environments, which determine the directions and magnitudes of selection coefficients, fluctuate unpredictably. (ref. ) Over the past century,