Campos, Paulo R.A; Adami, Christoph; Wilke, Claus O - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 304 (2002) 3, pp. 495-506
We investigate the evolutionary dynamics of a finite population of sequences adapting to NK fitness landscapes. We find that, unlike in the case of an infinite population, the average fitness in a finite population is maximized at a small but finite, rather than vanishing, mutation rate. The...
