Monday, 29 February 2016

How does rate of evolution/innovation scale with population size?


I understand that there will be many other factors that affect rate of evolution/innovation. However, other things being equal, how will the rate of evolution vary between two populations of different sizes? Does doubling the population size double the rate of introduction of new traits?


Is this answerable for evolving life in general, or do different forms of life have different scaling laws? For example, is it different for sexual and asexual life?




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