Point of View: Towards a mechanistic foundation of evolutionary theory
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- University of Colorado, United States
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Point of View: Towards a mechanistic foundation of evolutionary theoryeLife 6:e23804.https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23804 - Cite
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Figure 1
Deterministic approximations of evolutionary birth-death processes.
Adaptive dynamics, given by Equation 3, derived for the two examples of evolutionary birth-death processes shown in Video 1 and Video 2. Adaptive dynamics yields a deterministic approximation of the …
Videos
Video 1
Evolving populations as clouds of points moving in phenotype space.
The points in the cloud represent the individual organisms, which can give birth (spawn a new point in the cloud) and die (the corresponding dot disappears from the cloud). The video shows a single …
Video 2
A single species undergoing chaotic evolutionary dynamics in a 3-dimensional phenotype space.
The cloud of points represents the evolving population. In this example, all individuals had the same constant birth rate, whereas individual death rates were determined by competition from other …
