Darwinian fitness
A measure of the relative contribution of an individual to the gene pool of the next generation.
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Darwinian fitness
The relative probability of survival and reproduction for a genotype. See fitness.
Related Terms:
Probability
The expectation of the occurrence of a particular event.
1) A mutation that has no effect on the Darwinian fitness of its carriers.
2) A mutation that has no phenotypic effect.
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Fitness
Also called adaptive value. The relative reproductive success of a genotype as measured by survival, fecundity or other life history parameters. See Darwinian fitness and natural selection.
(2000) Testosterone, Endurance, and Darwinian Fitness: Natural and Sexual Selection on the Physiological Bases of Alternative Male Behaviors in Side-Blotched Lizards. Hormones and Behavior. 38:222-233.
^ Muller, M. N.; Wrangham, R.
 See also: Fitness, Selection, Life, Survival, Natural selection
  
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