Sex and Coevolution
Populations and Evolution
2019-03-19 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Abstract
It has been suggested that the fundamental haploid-diploid cycle of eukaryotic sex exploits a rudimentary form of the Baldwin effect. This paper uses the well-known NKCS model to explore the effects of coevolution upon the behaviour of eukaryotes. It is shown how varying fitness landscape size, ruggedness and connectedness can vary the conditions under which eukaryotic sex proves beneficial over asexual reproduction in haploids in a coevolutionary context. Moreover, eukaryotic sex is shown to be more sensitive to the relative rate of evolution exhibited by its partnering species than asexual haploids.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.07429,
title = {Sex and Coevolution},
author = {Larry Bull},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.07429},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
15 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1811.04073, arXiv:1808.03471