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Adaptation on fluctuating fitness landscapes: speciation and the persistence of lineages.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Apr 1993
Cheetham T
Abstract excerpt
The NK landscape model of adaptive evolution introduced by Kauffman & Levin (1987) is modified to simulate diversification of monophyletic lineages. Extinction probability is made a function of fitness, and speciation probability a function of the number of fitter one mutant neighbors, which is analogous to genetic potential. Dynamics of adaptive walks are measured as the total number of phenotypically defined...
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