Our ability to predict how species will respond to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) may depend upon our understanding of transgenerational plasticity (TGP), which occurs when environments experienced by previous generations influence phenotypes of subsequent generations. TGP evolved to help organisms cope with environmental stressors when parental environments are highly predictive of offspring environments. HIREC can alter conditions that favored TGP in historical environments by reducing parents' ability to detect environmental conditions, disrupting previous correlations between parental and offspring environments, and interfering with the transmission of parental cues to offspring. Because of the propensity to produce errors in these processes, TGP will likely generate negative fitness outcomes in response to HIREC, though beneficial fitness outcomes may occur in some cases.

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人类改变环境中的跨代可塑性。

我们预测物种如何应对人类引起的快速环境变化 (HIREC) 的能力可能取决于我们对跨代可塑性 (TGP) 的理解，这种可塑性发生在前几代人经历的环境影响后代的表型时。当亲本环境对后代环境具有高度预测性时，TGP 进化以帮助生物体应对环境压力源。HIREC 可以通过降低父母检测环境条件的能力、破坏父母和后代环境之间先前的相关性以及干扰父母线索向后代的传递来改变历史环境中有利于 TGP 的条件。由于在这些过程中容易产生错误，TGP 可能会产生负面的适应度结果以响应 HIREC，