The time scale of evolutionary innovation.
A fundamental question in biology is the following: what is the time scale that is needed for evolutionary innovations? There are many results that characterize single steps in terms of the fixation time of new mutants arising in populations of certain size and structure. But here we ask a different...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-09-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4161296?pdf=render |