Adaptations: Meanings

Hudson K Reeve, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Paul W Sherman, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001707

An adaptation is the phenotypic variant that has the highest reproductive success among a well-specified set of variants in a given environment.

Keywords: adaptation; teleonomy; evolutionary history; phenotype existence; fitness

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Reeve, Hudson K, and Sherman, Paul W(Apr 2001) Adaptations: Meanings. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0001707]