In standard biological models of evolution it is assumed that genes are the relevant replicators.
The admittance of oblique transmission into evolutionary theory necessitates far more radical revisions to traditional Darwinian models of evolution.
For example, affordances are communicated by properties of visualizations that help students build accurate mental models of evolution.
In this paper we propose a simple model capturing key features of fitness-landscape and ecological models of evolution.
Simulated datasets show that an optimal range of sequence divergence exists across diverse topologies and models of evolution.
Fifteen years ago, he almost abandoned it for digital models of evolution, then reconsidered and was vindicated when his bacteria took one of their most dramatic evolutionary leaps.
Following the establishment of evolutionary biology, studies of mutation and variation in natural populations, combined with biogeography and systematics, led to sophisticated mathematical and causal models of evolution.
In order to accommodate different substitution rates among codon positions, we used partitioned models of evolution (e.g. [56], [57]).
For each locus, best-fit models of evolution were identified using hierarchical likelihood ratio test implemented in MODELTEST [59].
Modeltest v3.8 [203] was used to select the best-fit models of evolution for each Rvh gene (Table S1).
These results suggest that future analyses may benefit from exploring more complex mosaic models of evolution and, ideally, datasets that include intraspecific genetic information.
