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Phase transition in random adaptive walks on correlated fitness landscapes

Phase transition in random adaptive walks on correlated fitness landscapes

We study biological evolution on a random fitness landscape where correlations are introduced through a linear fitness gradient of strength $c$. When selection is strong and mutations rare the dynamics is a directed uphill walk that terminates at a local fitness maximum. We analytically calculate the dependence of the walk …