Anna R. H. Peschel

Estimates of the rate of adaptive evolution in four wild populations of Nemophila menziesii

Populations that have detectable additive genetic variance for fitness (VA(W)) have the capacity for increase in their mean fitness through natural selection. The extent to which the magnitude of VA(W) in wild populations is predictive of the rate of adaptation is not well known, because few empirical field-based studi...