Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1101 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1994 Jul;9(7):265-7. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90296-8.
The controversy over the use of optimality models in the investigation of adaptation is long-standing. Nonetheless, little or no attention has been paid in this debate to the most important question to be asked about such models: how should the test of an optimality model be structured if the local optimality of the trait is to be assessed? Here we answer this question and describe how such a test can contribute to a test of adaptationism.
在对适应现象的研究中，使用最优模型引发了长期的争议。尽管如此，在这场辩论中，很少有人关注到应该向最优模型提出的最重要的问题：如果要评估性状的局部最优性，应该如何构建对最优模型的检验？本文将回答这个问题，并描述此类检验如何有助于对适应主义的检验。
