Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an optimisation principle in evolution.
This paper presents a necessary condition for the existence of a numerical quantity optimised by evolution by natural selection, which also turns out to be a sufficient condition under rather general conditions. As a corollary, a related criterion with a particularly intuitive graphical interpretation in terms of pairwise invadability plots is obtained.
Gyllenberg
Mats
M
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Service
Robert
R
D005075:Biological Evolution; D017753:Ecosystem; D005828:Genetics, Population; D055641:Mathematical Concepts; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012641:Selection, Genetic