Population dynamics in a spin-glass model of chemical evolution
- 30 November 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Molecular Evolution
- Vol. 29 (6), 513-525
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02602923
Abstract
We introduce a simple model describing the evolution of a population of information-carrying macromolecules. We discuss the asymptotic dependence of the variability of the population on different parameters, representing the severity or the fluctuations of the environment. We show the existence of a transition separating a neutralist evolutionary regime from a trapped one. We investigate the dependence of the evolutionary behavior of the population on the correlation properties of the fitness landscape.Keywords
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