Evolutionary Biology

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Evolutionary Biology.

• Allopatric speciation — The evolution of reproductive isolation after geographic separation reduces gene flow between formerly connected populations.
• Fitness seascape — Model genotype or phenotype fitness as a function that changes with time or environment, so adaptive paths respond to a moving selective surface rather than a fixed landscape.
• Most recent common ancestor — The latest ancestral individual, population or gene lineage from which every member of a specified descendant set is inferred to descend.
• Sexual antagonistic coevolution — Reciprocal evolutionary change between sex-specific traits when a mating interaction benefits one sex while imposing fitness costs on the other.