A stochastic theory of macromolecular evolution

DOI10.1007/BF00317940zbMath0561.92011OpenAlexW2089027420MaRDI QIDQ2266682

J. S. McCaskill

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Biological Cybernetics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00317940

zbMATH Keywords

fluctuationsreplicationdestructionadaptive selectiondifferential difference equationsconditional transition probabilitiesneutral selectiondeterministic behaviourDarwinian optimization principlelimits of metastability of macromolecular distributionslocalization thresholdmacromolecular evolutionmetaspeciesmetastable lifetimemutation coupled sequencesmutational transitionsrandom-driftself-replicating macro-moleculessurvival of the survivor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

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