Thursday, January 29, 2015

The application of statistical physics to evolutionary biology, Sella and Hirsh, 2005 PNAS

The application of statistical physics to evolutionary biology, Sella and Hirsh, 2005 PNAS

This is a quite influential paper in many aspects.

It seems to provides a theoretic explanation for the multiplicative and additive fitness measures.


Some of the words that I found interesting are:
Energy is an additive quantity in physical systems, so it is not surprising that its counterpart in the evolutionary process should be the additive fintess.

Maximization of free fitness is precisely analogous to the second law of thermodynamics.









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