Can possible evolutionary outcomes be determined directly from the population dynamics?
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Can possible evolutionary outcomes be determined directly from the population dynamics?
Traditionally, to determine the possible evolutionary behaviour of an ecological system using adaptive dynamics, it is necessary to calculate the fitness and its derivatives at a singular point. We investigate the claim that the possible evolutionary behaviour can be predicted directly from the population dynamics, without the need for calculation, by applying three criteria - one based on the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Theoretical Population Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0040-5809
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.09.002