The Dynamics of Complex Adaptation

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Argues that complex adaptations with k mutations succeed when the combination’s selective advantage exceeds local recombination so it avoids breakup, gives the quantitative condition recombination rate < s, and shows stochastic crossing is dominated by one lucky lineage whose total progeny or area ~ 1/(mu s) must produce ~1/s successful double mutants, yielding a characteristic waiting time ~ sqrt(1/(mu s)); applies to cancer (k≥2), HIV recombination ≈1%, and bacterial parameter estimates like N≈10^6.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:09Why do we care?
3. 2:50Problems
4. 3:08Start with the second problem
5. 5:01Selection vs recombination numbers
6. 8:16Selection vs stochasticity Trajectories of mutant lineages (t)
7. 9:06Now address first problem
8. 11:14Asexual dynamical regimes already complicated
9. 11:49First guess
10. 14:12Deterministic for very large population sizes
11. 16:45Single-mutant lineage
12. 18:13Distribution of total progeny
13. 20:50Most likely path to success: one big lineage
14. 21:29Range of behaviors over different population sizes
15. 23:39When is complex adaptation likely?
16. 28:20Putting it all together
17. 29:35Conclusion