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dc.contributor.author	Nathanson, Charles Gordon
dc.contributor.author	Tarnita, Corina Elena
dc.contributor.author	Nowak, Martin A.
dc.date.accessioned	2010-04-12T13:46:06Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Nathanson Charles G., Corina E. Tarnita, and Martin A. Nowak. 2009. Calculating evolutionary dynamics in structured populations. PLoS Computational Biology 5(12): e1000615.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1553-734X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3892593
dc.description.abstract	Evolution is shaping the world around us. At the core of every evolutionary process is a population of reproducing individuals. The outcome of an evolutionary process depends on population structure. Here we provide a general formula for calculating evolutionary dynamics in a wide class of structured populations. This class includes the recently introduced “games in phenotype space” and “evolutionary set theory.” There can be local interactions for determining the relative fitness of individuals, but we require global updating, which means all individuals compete uniformly for reproduction. We study the competition of two strategies in the context of an evolutionary game and determine which strategy is favored in the limit of weak selection. We derive an intuitive formula for the structure coefficient, σ, and provide a method for efficient numerical calculation.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Mathematics	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Organismic and Evolutionary Biology	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Public Library of Science	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000615	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/all_publications.html#2009	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.title	Calculating Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Plos Computational Biology	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Nowak, Martin A.
dc.date.available	2010-04-12T13:46:06Z

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