When Does Evolution Optimise?
Authors: Metz JAJ, Mylius SD, Diekmann O
Publication Year: 2008
Reference: IIASA Interim Report IR-08-013
Abstract
Goal: Elucidating the role of the eco-evolutionary feedback loop in determining evolutionarily stable life histories, with particular reference to the methodological status of the optimisation procedures of classical evolutionary ecology.
Conclusion: A pure optimisation approach holds water only when the eco-evolutionary feedbacks are of a particularly simple kind.
Conclusion: A pure optimisation approach holds water only when the eco-evolutionary feedbacks are of a particularly simple kind.