Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential
Katie Abson, Lillith C. Zijmers, Elizabeth A. Mittell, Euan A. Young, Erik Postma, Adam Eyre‐Walker, Jarrod D. Hadfield
This paper shows that molecular genetic diversity poorly predicts adaptive potential, using evolvability as a measure of heritable variation across species.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Jun 29, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology