Continuously stable strategies as evolutionary branching points

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2010.06.036MaRDI QIDQ1726097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Doebeli, Iaroslav Ispolatov

Publication date 19 February 2019

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3862

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive dynamicsevolution of diversityevolutionary divergencefrequency-dependent competitionpartial differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

Abstract: Evolutionary branching points are a paradigmatic feature of adaptive dynamics, because they are potential starting points for adaptive diversification. The antithesis to evolutionary branching points are Continuously stable strategies (CSS's), which are convergent stable and evolutionarily stable equilibrium points of the adaptive dynamics and hence are thought to represent endpoints of adaptive processes. However, this assessment is based on situations in which the invasion fitness function determining the adaptive dynamics have non-zero second derivatives at a CSS. Here we show that the scope of evolutionary branching can increase if the invasion fitness function vanishes to higher than first order at a CSS. Using a class of classical models for frequency-dependent competition, we show that if the invasion fitness vanishes to higher orders, a CSS may be the starting point for evolutionary branching, with the only additional requirement that mutant types need to reach a certain threshold frequency, which can happen e.g. due to demographic stochasticity. Thus, when invasion fitness functions vanish to higher than first order at equilibrium points of the adaptive dynamics, evolutionary diversification can occur even after convergence to an evolutionarily stable strategy.

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