AMITY WILCZEK

I am interested in understanding how complex environments influence selection on organisms, and how organisms can respond adaptively to their environment. This is an exciting time in evolutionary biology: rapidly accumulating evidence on the effects of mutation at the molecular and developmental level is making the mapping from genotype to phenotype an increasingly tractable problem... Selection sorts amongst organisms based on their physical characteristics (phenotype). However, there is a complex, often environmentally-dependent relationship of an organism's phenotype to its heritable material (genotype), which mediates the response to selection over time. To understand the outcome of evolution, we must understand genotypes, phenotypes, and the links between them. Thus, I study adaptation across a broad range of scales, incorporating genetic, developmental and physiological information into phenotypic selection analyses and mathematical models of life history. My work is largely..