How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against
Fig 4
Evolution of reaction norms under strong selection weak mutation.
Panels to the left show population performance (see section Evaluation of reaction norms) over time in current (green line) and past (blue line) environments. Panels to the right show the evolved reaction norm (solid line) 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. (A) Slow coarse-grained environments (K = 40000) (B) Fine-grained environments (K = 0.1) (C) Fast coarse-grained environments (K = 1). Performance over time and evolved reaction norms are identical to weak selection scenarios.