On the feasibility of saltational evolution [Evolution]

Is evolution always gradual or can it make leaps? We examine a mathematical model of an evolutionary process on a fitness landscape and obtain analytic solutions for the probability of multimutation leaps, that is, several mutations occurring simultaneously, within a single generation in 1 genome, and being fixed all together...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - October 14, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research