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Please explain why a population may never reach its most fit phenotype.
 
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If the adaptive landscapes have multiple peaks, the population will climb the nearest peak even if it is not the highest peak. In the absence of drift, natural selection will keep the population on this local maxima, thereby preventing it from reaching the glob-al maxima.
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