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SUBMITTER: Tarnita CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2689033 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090511 21
Evolutionary dynamics are strongly affected by population structure. The outcome of an evolutionary process in a well-mixed population can be very different from that in a structured population. We introduce a powerful method to study dynamical population structure: evolutionary set theory. The individuals of a population are distributed over sets. Individuals interact with others who are in the same set. Any 2 individuals can have several sets in common. Some sets can be empty, whereas others h ...[more]