- Word
fitness landscape
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- Description
An n+1-dimensional function, or surface, used to visualize fitness over an n-dimensional trait space. The height of the surface at each point gives a fitness measure for a particular set of values for the traits of interest. Peaks and valleys in the surface represent local maxima and minima in the landscape.
- Topics
- Dynamical Systems, Evolution, Adaptation, Statistical Physics
- Difficulty
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