Article
Collective adaptation in a statistical model of an evolving population.
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie - 1 Apr 1994
Peliti L, Bastolla U
Abstract excerpt
We simulate asexually and sexually reproducing model populations evolving in a rugged fitness landscape where fit and unfit genotypes are distributed at random, and where all fit genotypes have the same a priori probability of reproduction. Varying the fraction chi of unfit genotypes at a fixed mutation rate we observe a strikingly different behavior for the two reproduction mechanisms. For the asexually...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Humans
- Models, Statistical
- Mutation
- Population
- Reproduction
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Sterilization, Reproductive