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Science 23 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5743, pp. 2005 - 2007
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118711
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Making Sense of Evolution in an Uncertain World

Vincent A. A. Jansen and Michael P. H. Stumpf

Constant environments are the exception, not the norm, in ecology. In their Perspective, Jansen and Stumpf discuss how the work of Kussell and Leibler marks a major advance in our ability to analyze evolutionary dynamics in fluctuating environments. Generating phenotypic diversity may be all that is required for a species to adapt to a changing environment.

V. A. A. Jansen is at the School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway-University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. M. P. H. Stumpf is at the Centre for Bioinformatics, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. E-mail: vincent.jansen{at}rhul.ac.uk

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