Individual-Based Probabilistic Models of Adaptive Evolution and Various Scaling Approximations

Progress in Probability

Volumn 59, Issue , 2008, Pages 75-113

  Champagnat, Nicolas ^a,b   Ferrière, Régis ^a,c   Méléard, Sylvie ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive dynamics; birth death mutation competition point process; Darwinian evolution; fitness; mutation selection dynamics; nonlinear integro differential equations; nonlinear partial differential equations; nonlinear superprocesses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145055683     PISSN: 10506977     EISSN: 22970428     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8458-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

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