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#537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics

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The Importance of Natural Selection

In classic evolutionary sorneo darwinian theory, the environment is kind of selecting for traits that are genetically based. Those traits that are better fit become more common because those the carriers, are more likely to survive and reproduce. So it doesn't overturn the idea that natural selection operating on jeans is important. It just says there's a lot more going on. Some of it might be faster times, some of it might have sort of reciprocal effects. You no, there's just a lot more complexity than that original model.

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