Friday 15 April 2016

evolution - How is it possible for the absolute fitness to be more than 1?


The wikipedia definition of Absolute fitness is "the ratio between the number of individuals with that genotype after selection to those before selection. It is calculated for a single generation and must be calculated from absolute numbers."


But in one generation there are no reproductive events so it should be theoretically impossible for the population to be larger after the selection event than before it (since no reproduction is taking place).




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