Bagnoli, Franco; Guardiani, Carlo - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 347 (2005) C, pp. 534-574
A microscopic model is developed, within the frame of the theory of quantitative traits, to study the combined effect of competition and assortativity on the sympatric speciation process, i.e., speciation in the absence of geographical barriers. Two components of fitness are considered: a static...