Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Generation of Variation and Mean Fitness Increase: Necessity is the Mother of Genetic Invention
Y. Ram, L. Altenberg, U. Liberman, M. W. Feldman
The paper shows that increasing variation in low-fitness individuals under constant selection raises mean population fitness, supporting the idea that necessity drives genetic innovation.
DOI 10.1016/j.tpb.2018.02.004