Heritability is not Evolvability

2011/06/20 by Thomas F. Hansen, Christophe Pélabon, David Houle · 487 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Computer science #Correlation #Data mining #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary biology #Evolvability #Genetic variation #Genetics #Heritability #Mathematics #Measure (data warehouse) #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Quantitative genetics #Scaling #Statistics #Variance (accounting)

paper · doi:10.1007/s11692-011-9127-6

published in Evolutionary Biology 38(3), 258-277 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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