1. Evolution: Selfing Takes Species Down Stebbins’s Blind Alley
Jeremiah W. Busch, Lynda F. Delph 
Current Biology 
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages R61-R63 (January 2017)
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2. Figure 1
The flower of a primarily self-fertilizing plant species, Mimulus laciniatus.
The evolution of selfing commonly occurs, yet its influence on adaptive potential has been difficult to test empirically. Photo: D. Grossenbacher.
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3. Figure 2
Comparing the adaptive potential of outcrossing and selfing populations.
These lines describe the cumulative amount of adaptive trait evolution over a time span of four generations. For a given amount of selection in a generation, the evolutionary response is predicted by the realized heritability (h2realized), or the slope of the line. In this example, historical selfing slows the rate of adaptation.
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