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Population genetics

a model of adaptation as movement toward an optimum in trait space, predicting that small mutations are more often beneficial than large ones.

In population genetics, Fisher's geometric model refers to a model of adaptation as movement toward an optimum in trait space, predicting that small mutations are more often beneficial than large ones. This meaning comes from Orr (1998) in Evolution.[1]

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References

Orr, H. A. (1998). The Population Genetics of Adaptation: the Distribution of Factors Fixed During Adaptive Evolution. Evolution, 52(4), 935-949. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb01823.x

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