Talk:Evolvability

This article is just a dicdef... I don;t see it becoming a real article. Someone please figure out if it can be or just redirect it to a more appropriate place. DreamGuy 00:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Evolvability is an essential concept of theoretical population genetics and research on genetic algorithms; in population genetics, it is related to plasticity, pleiotropy, epistasis, and mutational robustness. These things should have their own portal! - Samsara 11:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I disagree. In fact this article is integral to evolution itself. Evolvability isn't just the definition of the underlying process of evolution, but is itself a survival trait that has been highly adapted over the course of evolution. Evolvability is necesary for survival - species that have a poor ability to evolve would be at the mercy of species that adapt more quickly. Sexual reproduction is an excellent example of evolution for evolvability. Sexual reproduction allows the variation necessary for evolution but without heavy risk of failure - heathly individuals will likely produce a healthy offspring - but importantly that offsping will differ from both parents. This concept needs to be worked into a variety of articles related to evoution. Asdf96 (talk) 16:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I have now done a MAJOR overhaul of the page, with a large amount of cited new content. Hopefully, it will now evolve some more from this structure in a happier way Joannamasel (talk) 00:29, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose the merge of Evolutionary Trade-Offs into this document. The examples listed are clearly linked to natural selection and the ability of organisms to respond to selective pressure.Kyle^(talk) 20:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)