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Evolution and Climate Variability

According to natural selection theory, major adaptive change depends on consistency in the effects of Darwinian selection. In his Perspective, Potts argues that another force is at work: variability selection, in which certain organisms adapt to wide fluctuations in environmental conditions.

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