Darwin's dualistic view of the nature of the organism is reflected in his using adaptation to mean both "function" and "evolutionary response to environmental change".
One approach that might hold promise as a means of detecting evolutionary responses to climate change is the estimation of selection differentials over long time series (Swain et al. 2007; Crozier et al. 2011).
Second, with knowledge of the phenotypic variance and the narrow-sense heritability of spawning time, we can predict the evolutionary response to selection (i.e., the change in the mean phenotypic value per generation).
This means that the exact pattern of environmental change matters for how well we can predict the evolutionary response to a changing environment.
Although the evolutionary response to ocean acidification found here is to increase the calcification rate of coccolithophores, this does not necessarily mean that there will be an increase in the ratio between calcification and photosynthesis (C/P ratio).
It's Darwinian, I guess – an evolutionary response to terrifying selection pressures.
Migration may not be innate behavior but an evolutionary response to external pressures.
This resprouting, or coppicing, could be an evolutionary response to attacks by elephants, who habitually snap or uproot trees.
The phase can last until the child is 4 or 5. It's an evolutionary response, researchers believe.
These people, known as Homo erectus, had become stranded on the island and then had shrunk in an evolutionary response to the island's limited resources.
