Article
Mutational order: a major stochastic process in evolution.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 22 May 1990
Mani G S, Clarke B C
Abstract excerpt
Computer simulations in which selection acts on a quantitative character show that the randomness of mutations can contribute significantly to evolutionary divergence between populations. In different populations, different advantageous mutations occur, and are selected to fixation, so that the populations diverge even when they are initially identical, and are subject to identical selection. This stochastic...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Computer Simulation
- Genotype
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Stochastic Processes