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Evolutionary biology

the hypothesis that a plastic ancestral population seeds adaptive radiations whose divergent forms mirror the ancestor's plastic responses.

In evolutionary biology, flexible stem hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that a plastic ancestral population seeds adaptive radiations whose divergent forms mirror the ancestor's plastic responses. This meaning comes from Wund (2008) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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References

Wund, M. A., Baker, J. A., Clancy, B., Golub, J. L., & Foster, S. A. (2008). A Test of the “Flexible Stem” Model of Evolution: Ancestral Plasticity, Genetic Accommodation, and Morphological Divergence in the Threespine Stickleback Radiation. The American Naturalist, 172(4), 449-462. https://doi.org/10.1086/590966

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