adaptive landscape

Pigliucci M 2008 Sewall Wright's adaptive landscapes: 1932 vs. 1988. Biol Philos 23:591-603.

• it is deeply flawed and may have actually created research questions that are not, in fact, fecund
• the metaphor is flawed
• some of the problems which Wright was attempting to address are still with us today

• it is difficult, of course, to make reasonable inferences on exactly why Wright thought that what later became known as the problem of peak shift is so central to evolution

• evolutionary biologists since Simpson have moved between genotypic and phenotypic adaptive landscapes rather too easily, as Wright himself acknowledged: Wright 1988, p.120