Entropic sampling and natural selection in biological evolution

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/22/002MaRDI QIDQ4255710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 19 October 1999

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9607086

zbMATH Keywords

natural selectionrandom mutation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

Abstract: With a view to connecting random mutation on the molecular level to punctuated equilibrium behavior on the phenotype level, we propose a new model for biological evolution, which incorporates random mutation and natural selection. In this scheme the system evolves continuously into new configurations, yielding non-stationary behavior of the total fitness. Further, both the waiting time distribution of species and the avalanche size distribution display power-law behaviors with exponents close to two, which are consistent with the fossil data. These features are rather robust, indicating the key role of entropy.

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