How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against
Fig 3
Evolution of reaction norms in fast coarse-grained environments.
(A) Lack of fit (see Evaluation of reaction norms) in the current (green line) and past (blue line) environments. Orange line indicates the average slope of plasticity in the population, dashed orange line indicates optimal long-term adaptive plasticity. (B) Evolved reaction norms (grey lines) compared to optimal reaction norm (dashed line) at the end of the evolutionary period. Crosses indicate optima corresponding to environmental values used in the simulation. Dots indicate the phenotypes expressed for those values. The population evolves optimal adaptive plasticity.