4 papers
Convergence of knowledge in a cultural evolution model with population structure, random social learning and credibility biases
Sylvain Billiard, Maxime Derex, Ludovic Maisonneuve +1
Understanding how knowledge is created and propagates within groups is crucial to explain how human populations have evolved through time. Anthropologists have relied on different…
Inference with selection, varying population size and evolving population structure: Application of ABC to a forward-backward coalescent process with interactions
Clotilde Lepers, Sylvain Billiard, Matthieu Porte +2
Genetic data are often used to infer demographic history and changes or detect genes under selection. Inferential methods are commonly based on models making various strong assumpt…
Perennial life-histories and demographic advantages may play contradictory roles in the evolution of plant mating systems
Diala Abu Awad, Viet-Chi Tran, Sylvain Billiard
When predicting the fate and consequences of recurring deleterious mutations in self-fertilising populations most models developed make the assumption that populations have discret…
The interplay of two mutations in a population of varying size: a stochastic eco-evolutionary model for clonal interference
Sylvain Billiard, Charline Smadi
Clonal interference, competition between multiple co-occurring beneficial mutations, has a major role in adaptation of asexual populations. We provide a simple individual based sto…