Article
M.V. Volkenstein, evolutionary thinking and the structure of fitness landscapes.
Bio Systems - 1 Jan 1992
Conrad M, Ebeling W
Abstract excerpt
High dimensional fitness landscapes are robustly dominated by saddle points, not isolated peaks. We present an argument to this effect that is reminiscent of May's complexity stability analysis and trace out the significance for the dynamics of speciation, the connection between the neutral and punctuated aspects of evolution and evolution on moving landscapes. The paper is written in honor of M.V. Volkenstein...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Genotype
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype