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Evolutionary biology

Wright's proposal that drift in small subpopulations lets them cross fitness valleys, after which selection and migration spread the new peak.

In evolutionary biology, shifting balance theory refers to wright's proposal that drift in small subpopulations lets them cross fitness valleys, after which selection and migration spread the new peak. This meaning comes from Coyne (1997) in Evolution.[1]

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Coyne, J. A., Barton, N. H., & Turelli, M. (1997). Perspective: a Critique of Sewall Wright's Shifting Balance Theory of Evolution. Evolution, 51(3), 643-671. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03650.x

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