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fitness
Sign in to saveAlso known as genetic fitness, Darwinian fitness, adaptive fitness, biological fitness, evolutionary fitness, selective fitness
quantitative representation of natural and sexual selection within evolutionary biology
Research
146,418 papers- Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2009
- Multi-generational fitness legacies of natural immigration: theoretical and empirical perspectives and opportunities.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
- Muscular fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with health-related quality of life: Results from labmed physical activity study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2019
- Genetics and the fitness of hybrids.Annual review of genetics · 2001
- PMID 251879392012
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Encyclopedic overview
Fitness (often denoted
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