How adaptive plasticity evolves when selected against
Fig 6
Evolution of reaction norms in slow coarse-grained environments with low mutation rates under SSWM (A) lack of fit (see Evaluation of reaction norms) in current (green line) and past (blue line) environments.
The solid orange lines indicates average population plalsticity, the dashed orange line optimal 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 slowly evolves optimal adaptive plasticity.