Does evolution go where plasticity leads? New paper by Radersma et al. in Evo Letters.

Does evolution go where plasticity leads? New paper by Radersma et al. in Evo Letters. 20th June 2020 Tobias Uller writes: West-Eberhard famously suggested that plasticity ‘takes the lead’ in adaptive evolution. But how can you tell if you are not there to see it happen? In a new paper in Evolution Letters, we show one way to tackle the problem. We figured that we can look for signatures of plasticity by comparing the magnitude and direction of plastic responses to the environment with how...