Evolutionary dynamics in Small Network Structured Populations

Arne Traulsen
MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Theoretical Biology

Mathematical models often work in unstructured populations, but real populations from tissues to higher organisms usually have to be treated as spatially structured. How do we model this “space”? Network structured populations provide a playground to consider different ways to implement evolutionary dynamics in space – and they teach us that often presumably tiny details matter and can drive the outcome on a macroscopic level.


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