ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Evolution in the weak-mutation limit: Stasis periods punctuated by fast transitions between saddle points on the fitness landscape.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Abstract
A mathematical analysis of the evolution of a large population under the weak-mutation limit shows that such a population would spend most of the time in stasis in the vicinity of saddle points on the fitness landscape. The periods of stasis are punctuated by fast transitions, in ln
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