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One of the main questions in micro-evolution is how genes interact with the environment in forming a phenotype, and to what extent the environmentally induced phenotypic variations are adaptive. One can think of the genes as coding for a program that processes information from the environment. This program is subjected to natural selection. Especially under field conditions it is often difficult to determine to what extent phenotypic variation is caused by different genotypes and to what extent by different environmental input. The main practical difficulty here is the manpower needed to measure the environmental conditions in sufficient detail for a large enough sample.
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van Noordwijk, A.J. (1990). The Effects of Forest Damage on Caterpillars and their Effect on the Breeding Biology of the Great Tit, an Overview. In: Blondel, J., Gosler, A., Lebreton, JD., McCleery, R. (eds) Population Biology of Passerine Birds. NATO ASI Series, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75110-3_18
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