Koinophilia replaces random mating in populations subject to mutations with randomly varying fitnesses.

Abstract excerpt

Koinophilia, the avoidance of sexual mates bearing strange phenotypic features, or displaying odd behaviour, would, if it evolved, profoundly influence the evolutionary process. A stochastic computer model was therefore devised to investigate the evolution of an initially rare koinophilic trait i...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Computer Simulation
• Models, Biological
• Mutation
• Sexual Behavior, Animal