New Evolution Digest out! 🎉
Does balancing selection maintain fitness variance? Yes, when drift and environmental fluctuations are in play!
I discuss why this matters for plant adaptation to climate change. 🌱🌡️
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Abstract. Why natural populations harbor high additive genetic variance for fitness remains an evolutionary puzzle. Connallon and Czuppon (2026) show that
