A growing number of biologists have begun asking whether environmentally induced
phenotypic change––'phenotypic plasticity'––precedes and facilitates the origin and …

Phenotypic plasticity is defined as the property of organisms to produce distinct phenotypes
in response to environmental variation. While for more than a century, biologists have …

The role of developmental (phenotypic) plasticity in ecology and evolution is receiving a
growing appreciation among the biologists, and many plasticity-specific concepts have …

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in evaluating whether phenotypic plasticity
can precede, facilitate, and possibly even bias adaptive evolution. Despite accumulating …

Many biologists are asking whether environmentally initiated phenotypic change
(ie,'phenotypic plasticity') precedes, and even facilitates, evolutionary adaptation. However …

Phenotypic plasticity—the ability of an individual organism to change its phenotype in direct
response to variation in its environment—has long fascinated and perplexed biologists …

Plasticity-first evolution (PFE) posits that novel features arise when selection refines pre-
existing phenotypic plasticity into an adaptive phenotype. However, PFE is controversial …

In the past decade, there has been a resurgent interest in whether and how phenotypic
plasticity might impact evolutionary processes. Of fundamental importance is how the …

Phenotypic plasticity of organisms in response to environmental variability is a
welldeveloped concept in ecology and evolutionary biology. It is currently seen as one of the …

Aside from its selective role in filtering inter‐individual variation during evolution by natural
selection, the environment also plays an instructive role in producing variation during …