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Group selection models in prebiotic evolution.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Jan 2001
Alves D, Campos P R, Silva A T, Fontanari J F
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of enzyme production is studied analytically using ideas of the group selection theory for the evolution of altruistic behavior. In particular, we argue that the mathematical formulation of Wilson's structured deme model [The Evolution of Populations and Communities (Benjamin-Cumings, Menlo Park, 1980)] is a mean-field approach in which the actual environment that a particular individual experiences...
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