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	1 BIOL2007 - EVOLUTION OF QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS How do evolutionary biologists measure variation in a typical quantitative character? Let’s use beak size in birds as a typical example. Phenotypic variation (Vp) in a Add to Reading List Document Date: 2008-01-30 19:37:03 Open Document File Size: 97,16 KB Share Result on Facebook City Birmingham / / Company Galapagos / GENETIC VARIABILITY / / Continent Europe / / Country Cameroon / / Event Natural Disaster / / IndustryTerm food-gathering / food / / NaturalFeature Galapagos Islands / Baltic Sea / / Organization US Federal Reserve / / / Position environmental variance VP / Vp / / Technology genotype / / SocialTag Evolutionary biology Genetics Heritability Evolution Disruptive selection Stabilizing selection Polymorphism Directional selection Epistasis Selection

1 BIOL2007 - EVOLUTION OF QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS How do evolutionary biologists measure variation in a typical quantitative character? Let’s use beak size in birds as a typical example. Phenotypic variation (Vp) in a Add to Reading List