A stochastic theory of macromolecular evolution

DOI10.1007/BF00317940zbMath0561.92011MaRDI QIDQ2266682

J. S. McCaskill

Publication date: 1984

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

zbMATH Keywords

fluctuations; replication; destruction; adaptive selection; differential difference equations; conditional transition probabilities; neutral selection; deterministic behaviour; Darwinian optimization principle; limits of metastability of macromolecular distributions; localization threshold; macromolecular evolution; metaspecies; metastable lifetime; mutation coupled sequences; mutational transitions; random-drift; self-replicating macro-molecules; survival of the survivor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D15: Problems related to evolution

60J85: Applications of branching processes

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

92B05: General biology and biomathematics

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