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SUBMITTER: Sella G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1172247 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050624 27
A number of fundamental mathematical models of the evolutionary process exhibit dynamics that can be difficult to understand analytically. Here we show that a precise mathematical analogy can be drawn between certain evolutionary and thermodynamic systems, allowing application of the powerful machinery of statistical physics to analysis of a family of evolutionary models. Analytical results that follow directly from this approach include the steady-state distribution of fixed genotypes and the l ...[more]