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Adaptation to new environments may involve 'many-small' genes
A present debate raging in evolutionary biology is about whether adaptation to new environments is a consequence of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study strongly supports the first "many-small" hypothesis. McGill University professor Andrew Hendry, from the Department of Biology and the Redpath Museum, and evolutionary geneticists at Basel