Stochastic tunneling across fitness valleys can give rise to a logarithmic long-term fitness trajectory
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3842
Abstract: Theoretical model suggests that gene interactions, known as epistasis, may dramatically slow down evolutionary dynamics. Adaptation, where a population evolves increasing fitness in a fixed environment, is typically thought of as a hill-climbing process on… read more here.
Keywords: term fitness; long term; fitness trajectory; stochastic tunneling ... See more keywords