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Fitness optimization and evolution of permanent replicator systems

Sergei Drozhzhin1, Tatiana Yakushkina2, Alexander S Bratus3,4

  • 1Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 119992.

Journal of Mathematical Biology
|February 5, 2021
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Keywords:
Fisher’s theorem of natural selectionFitness landscapeModel of evolutionPermanenceReplicator system

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