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.

Further reading

• Sewall Wright. "The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and selection in evolution". In Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Genetics, pp. 355-366, 1932.
• Richard Dawkins. Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: Norton, 1996.
• Stuart Kauffman. At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Melanie Mitchell. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
• Foundations of Genetic Programming, Chapter 2