Fitness landscape

In evolutionary biology, fitness landscapes or adaptive landscapes are used to visualize the relationship between genotypes (or phenotypes) and replicatory success. It is assumed that every genotype has a well defined replication rate (often referred to as fitness). The set of all possible genotypes and their related fitness values is then called a fitness landscape.

Related Topics:
Evolutionary biology - Genotype - Phenotype - Replicatory - Fitness

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In evolutionary optimization problems, fitness landscapes are evaluations of a fitness function for all candidate solutions (see below).

Related Topics:
Evolutionary optimization - Fitness function

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The idea to study evolution by visualizing the distribution of fitness values as a kind of landscape was first introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932.

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Sewall Wright - 1932

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