Re: Sergey Gavrilets and the adaptive landscape


"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dkgokk$g4b$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "William Morse" <wdmorse@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dkepms$2m6i$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > There is an interesting article that discusses this in the 9/25/2005
> > Science, p. 2075 "Phenotypic Diversity, Population Growth, and
> > Information in Fluctuating Environments" by Kussell and Leibler.

> Thanks, Bill. I was unsuccessful finding much about this paper online
> without a subscription, but in my searching, I came across this online
> paper which seems to be related. I strongly recommend it:
>
> The Fitness Value of Information
> Carl Bergstrom and Michael Lachmann
> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/q-bio/pdf/0510/0510007.pdf
>

And the references in that paper led me to two more great papers -
classics that I had never read:

On Population Growth in a Randomly Varying Environment
R. C. Lewontin, D. Cohen
PNAS Vol 62, No 4, (Apr 15, 1969), 1056-1060
Available online
Nature's maximand isn't expected fitness. It is the expected
logarithm of fitness.

Macroevolution in a Model Ecosystem
Joseph Felsenstein
American Naturalist, Vol 112, No 983 (Jan 1978), 177-195
Available online thru JSTOR
Joe's paper touches on not just information theory, but also the
always popular topic of Lotka's thermodynamic maximand for
evolution of ecosystems.

I hadn't realized it until recently, but our "Pope" produced some
great papers on quite a variety of topics before he became famous
for doing his part for the Seattle economy and the computer industry
with Phylip, maximum likelihood, and bootstraps. ;-)


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