2 papers
q-bio.PE2023
Social Learning and the Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff
Brian Mintz, Feng Fu
Cultures around the world show varying levels of conservatism. While maintaining traditional ideas prevents wrong ones from being embraced, it also slows or prevents adaptation to…
q-bio.PE2022
The Point of No Return: Evolution of Excess Mutation Rate is Possible Even for Simple Mutation Models
Brian Mintz, Feng Fu
Under constant selection, each trait has a fixed fitness, and small mutation rates allow populations to efficiently exploit the optimal trait. Therefore it is reasonable to expect…