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In a high dimensional genotype space, biological evolution in the limit of strong selection and rare mutations is studied. Adaptation processes can be treated as an uphill walk in fitness, which terminates at a fitness maximum. When fitness is assigned randomly, it is shown, that the mean walk length shows logarithmic behaviour in the number of initially available beneficial steps, with a prefactor, determined by the tail of the fitness distribution.

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Johannes Neidhart, Arbeitsgruppe Krug
Seminarraum THP
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