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Symmetry breaking and coarsening in spatially distributed evolutionary processes including sexual reproduction and disruptive selection.
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics - 1 Nov 2000
Sayama H, Kaufman L, Bar-Yam Y
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Sexual reproduction presents significant challenges to formal treatment of evolutionary processes. A starting point for systematic treatments of ecological and evolutionary phenomena has been provided by the gene-centered view of evolution which assigns effective fitness to each allele instead of each organism. The gene-centered view can be formalized as a dynamic mean-field approximation applied to genes in...
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