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Phenotypic Plasticity in the Fossil Record

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Author	Lister, Adrian M.
Copyright Year	2021
Description	Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of an individual organism to express different phenotypes in response to varying environmental conditions, is ubiquitous across life's diversity. It is also increasingly recognized as fundamental to the survival and adaptive capacity of organisms, as well as forming an integral part of the evolutionary process (West-Eberhard 2003; see also Pfennig 2021 and Sultan 2021 in this volume). We can suppose as a working assumption that what is true today must have also been true for organisms in the past (Chauffe and Nichols 1995). While almost all research on phenotypic plasticity has been based on living organisms, the fossil record has the potential to test models of biological processes with resources not amenable to the biology of the present-day: Long time-series to trace phenotypic change and variability on timescales ranging from $10^{0}$ to $10^{9 }$years Extinct relatives of living taxa, as models of ancestral phenotype and variation Quantification of diversification and extinction in clades through time Book Name: Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution
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Ending Page	297
Page Count	31
Starting Page	267
DOI	10.1201/9780429343001-14
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2021-05-19
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution Entomology Plasticity Adaptive Diversity Survival Extinct Phenotypic Models Fossil Organisms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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