Authors
Karen M Page, Martin A Nowak
Publication date
2002/11/7
Journal
Journal of theoretical biology
Volume
219
Issue
1
Pages
93-98
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
Darwinian evolution is based on three fundamental principles, reproduction, mutation and selection, which describe how populations change over time and how new forms evolve out of old ones. There are numerous mathematical descriptions of the resulting evolutionary dynamics. In this paper, we show that apparently very different formulations are part of a single unified framework. At the center of this framework is the equivalence between the replicator–mutator equation and the Price equation. From these equations, we obtain as special cases adaptive dynamics, evolutionary game dynamics, the Lotka-Volterra equation of ecology and the quasispecies equation of molecular evolution.
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KM Page, MA Nowak - Journal of theoretical biology, 2002