A number of factors have been proposed that may affect the capacity for an evolutionary system to generate adaptation. One that has received little recent attention among biologists is linkage patterns, or the ordering of genes on chromosomes. In this study, a simple model of genetic...

The evolution of cooperation often requires genetic similarity among interactors. For populations that are divided into groups such that a given trait affects all group members, this requires positive assortment of individuals into groups, i.e., that individuals are more similar to other group...