Baldwin effect under multipeaked fitness landscapes: Phenotypic fluctuation accelerates evolutionary rate
Baldwin effect under multipeaked fitness landscapes: Phenotypic fluctuation accelerates evolutionary rate
Phenotypic fluctuations and plasticity can generally affect the course of evolution, a process known as the Baldwin effect. Several studies have recast this effect and claimed that phenotypic plasticity accelerates evolutionary rate (the Baldwin expediting effect); however, the validity of this claim is still controversial. In this study, we investigate …