Evolutionary dynamics is often viewed as a subtle process of change accumulation that
causes a divergence among organisms and their genomes. However, this interpretation is …

Provides an in-depth and even treatment of the three pillars of computational intelligence
and how they relate to one another This book covers the three fundamental topics that form …

Genetic algorithms, computer programs that simulate natural evolution, are increasingly
applied across many disciplines. They have been used to solve various optimisation …

Fitness landscapes are often described in terms of 'peaks' and 'valleys', indicating an
intuitive low-dimensional landscape of the kind encountered in everyday experience. The …

Biased mutation spectra are pervasive, with wide variation in the magnitude of mutational
biases that influence genome evolution and adaptation. How do such diverse biases …

Fitness landscapes are genotype to fitness mappings commonly used in evolutionary
biology and computer science which are closely related to spin glass models. In this paper …

Natural selection drives populations towards higher fitness, but crossing fitness valleys or
plateaus may facilitate progress up a rugged fitness landscape involving epistasis. We …

Viruses evolve by periods of relative stasis interleaved with sudden, rapid series of mutation
fixations, known as evolutionary bursts. These bursts can be triggered by external factors …

Many models have been used to simplify and operationalize the subtle but complex
mechanisms of biological evolution. Toy models are gross simplifications that nevertheless …

The forcing that environmental variation exerts on populations causes continuous changes
with only two possible evolutionary outcomes: adaptation or extinction. Here we address this …