The tangled nature model as an evolving quasi-species model

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/4/302zbMATH Open1047.92034arXivcond-mat/0208328OpenAlexW2129225216MaRDI QIDQ4466090FDOQ4466090

Authors: Simone Avogadro di Collobiano, Kim Christensen, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen 

Publication date: 9 June 2004

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

Abstract: We show that the Tangled Nature model can be interpreted as a general formulation of the quasi-species model by Eigen et al. in a frequency dependent fitness landscape. We present a detailed theoretical derivation of the mutation threshold, consistent with the simulation results, that provides a valuable insight into how the microscopic dynamics of the model determine the observed macroscopic phenomena published previously. The dynamics of the Tangled Nature model is defined on the microevolutionary time scale via reproduction, with heredity, variation, and natural selection. Each organism reproduces with a rate that is linked to the individuals' genetic sequence and depends on the composition of the population in genotype space. Thus the microevolutionary dynamics of the fitness landscape is regulated by, and regulates, the evolution of the species by means of the mutual interactions. At low mutation rate, the macro evolutionary pattern mimics the fossil data: periods of stasis, where the population is concentrated in a network of coexisting species, is interrupted by bursts of activity. As the mutation rate increases, the duration and the frequency of bursts increases. Eventually, when the mutation rate reaches a certain threshold, the population is spread evenly throughout the genotype space showing that natural selection only leads to multiple distinct species if adaptation is allowed time to cause fixation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208328

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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