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R. A. Fisher and the Adaptive Landscape

Explore R. A. Fisher's skepticism about the adaptive landscape concept and its implications on understanding evolutionary dynamics.

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R. A. Fisher and the Adaptive Landscape:

...My own interpretation is that Fisher was sceptical about the value of the landscape concept as such, because both environmental and genetic conditions were too changeable for the metaphor of a 'landscape' to be useful. For Fisher the question of the 'shape' of the landscape therefore did not arise as a major issue, and he had no need to take a firm view on it. I discuss this interpretation below the fold.

Read the whole thing. Related:R. A. Fisher and Epistasis, Notes on Sewall Wright: Population Size, Notes on Sewall Wright: the Measurement of Kinship, Notes on Sewall Wright: Path Analysis, On Reading Wright and Notes on Sewall Wright: Migration

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