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Fixation probabilities are essential for characterizing stochastic evolutionary dynamics, but analytical results remain limited mainly to systems with two competing types. We develop a perturbative framework to compute fixation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 Ian Braga , Lucas Wardil , Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Evolutionary games on graphs describe how strategic interactions and population structure determine evolutionary success, quantified by the probability that a single mutant takes over a population. Graph structures, compared to the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-08 Philipp M. Altrock , Arne Traulsen , Martin A. Nowak

The stability of ecosystems as well as the relation between topology and dynamics on multilayer networks are important questions that are usually discussed in separate communities. Here, we combine these two topics by investigating the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-24 Jonas Richhardt , Sebastian Plitzko , Florian Schwarzmüller , Barbara Drossel

The fixation probability of a single mutant invading a population of residents is among the most widely-studied quantities in evolutionary dynamics. Amplifiers of natural selection are population structures that increase the fixation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Josef Tkadlec , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin A. Nowak

We investigate the competition between two quasispecies residing on two disparate neutral networks. Under the assumption that the two neutral networks have different topologies and fitness levels, it is the mutation rate that determines…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claus O. Wilke

In subdivided populations, migration acts together with selection and genetic drift and determines their evolution. Building up on a recently proposed method, which hinges on the emergence of a time scale separation between local and global…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-24 Pierangelo Lombardo , Andrea Gambassi , Luca Dall'Asta

The learning dynamics of biological brains and artificial neural networks are of interest to both neuroscience and machine learning. A key difference between them is that neural networks are often trained from a randomly initialized state…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Benjamin Midler , Alejandro Pan Vazquez

When beneficial mutations are relatively common, competition between multiple unfixed mutations can reduce the rate of fixation in well-mixed asexual populations. We introduce a one dimensional model with a steady accumulation of beneficial…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-19 Jakub Otwinowski , Stefan Boettcher

The bidirectional selection between two classes widely emerges in various social lives, such as commercial trading and mate choosing. Until now, the discussions on bidirectional selection in structured human society are quite limited. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-23 Bin Zhou , Zhe He , Luo-Luo Jiang , Nian-Xin Wang , Bing-Hong Wang

Biological networks of interacting agents exhibit similar topological properties for a wide range of scales, from cellular to ecological levels, suggesting the existence of a common evolutionary origin. A general evolutionary mechanism…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-10-25 Juan I. Perotti , Orlando V. Billoni , Francisco A. Tamarit , Sergio A. Cannas

In evolutionary dynamics, a key measure of a mutant trait's success is the probability that it takes over the population given some initial mutant-appearance distribution. This "fixation probability" is difficult to compute in general, as…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-18 Alex McAvoy , Benjamin Allen

Evolution occurs in populations of reproducing individuals. It is well known that population structure can affect evolutionary dynamics. Traditionally, natural selection is studied between mutants that differ in reproductive rate, but are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Josef Tkadlec , Kamran Kaveh , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin A. Nowak

The recent discovery of universal principles underlying many complex networks occurring across a wide range of length scales in the biological world has spurred physicists in trying to understand such features using techniques from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sitabhra Sinha

As a granular material is compressed, the particles and forces within the system arrange to form complex heterogeneous structures. Force chains are a prime example and are thought to constrain bulk properties such as mechanical stability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Lia Papadopoulos , James Puckett , Karen E. Daniels , Danielle S. Bassett

Population structures can be crucial determinants of evolutionary processes. For the Moran process on graphs certain structures suppress selective pressure, while others amplify it (Lieberman et al. 2005 Nature 433 312-316). Evolutionary…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Alastair Jamieson-Lane , Christoph Hauert

Protein structures are much more conserved than sequences during evolution. Based on this observation, we investigate the consequences of structural conservation on protein evolution. We study seven of the most studied protein folds,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ugo Bastolla , Markus Porto , H. Eduardo Roman , Michele Vendruscolo

We study the effect of learning dynamics on network topology. A network of discrete dynamical systems is considered for this purpose and the coupling strengths are made to evolve according to a temporal learning rule that is based on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Jost , Kiran M. Kolwankar

The rate of biological evolution depends on the fixation probability and on the fixation time of new mutants. Intensive research has focused on identifying population structures that augment the fixation probability of advantageous mutants.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-11 Josef Tkadlec , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin A. Nowak

Evolution occurs in populations of reproducing individuals. In stochastic descriptions of evolutionary dynamics, such as the Moran process, individuals are chosen randomly for birth and for death. If the same type is chosen for both steps,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Michal Pecho , Josef Tkadlec , Martin A. Nowak

Many networks in nature and applications have an approximate low-rank structure in the sense that their connectivity structure is dominated by a few dimensions. It is natural to expect that dynamics on such networks would also be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yue Wan , Robert Rosenbaum