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Adaptive peak


A high point (perhaps one of several) on an adaptive landscape; selection tends to drive the genotype composition of the population toward a combination corresponding to an adaptive peak.
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adaptive peak
An equilibrium state in a population when the gene pool has allele frequencies that maximize the average fitness of a population's members.
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Wright's explanation for stasis was that organisms come to occupy adaptive peaks. In order to evolve to an other, higher peak, the species would first have to pass through a valley of maladaptive intermediate stages.
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Eldredge, N: 1992. Macroevolutionary Dynamics: Species, Niches and Adaptive Peaks, McGraw-Hill
Eldredge, N: 1995. Reinventing Darwin: The Great Evolutionary Debate, Weidenfeld and Nicholson ...
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