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Science 5 October 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5540, p. 9
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5540.9g
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How rapidly can organisms adapt to global climate change? From an experimental study on a native legume of the American Great Plains, Etterson and Shaw (p. 151) have calculated the number of generations needed for adaptive changes to take place, and compare this estimate with the trajectory of predicted climate change. Adaptive evolution in response to global change is constrained by antagonistic genetic correlations among traits within populations of the plant, which suggests that plants of this kind might not adapt sufficiently rapidly to projected climate changes.




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