The effects of periodic environmental fluctuations on the adaptive behavior and on the survival chance of a population of individuals are investigated as a function of both the genotypes carried, i.e., haploid or diploid. Only extreme and exogenous changes have been taken into account in order...

Using a simple computer model for evolution, we show that in a sexual population subject only to age-increasing reproductive risk, a cessation of female reproduction emerges.

A model describing the evolution of a sexual population in a selective environment is presented. The population is composed of individuals each characterized by its phenotype and age. Within the standard Monte Carlo simulation technique, we calculate the time dependence of the average fitness,...

Using a Monte Carlo approach we study a simple lattice model of populations living in a habitat where the external conditions are changing in space and in time. We show that above a certain value of the climatic gradient, the population gathers at a restricted part of the lattice. The average...

We propose a model describing the colonization process of empty ecological niches. The members of the population are characterized by a single trait (phenotype). The fitness of an individual is measured as the difference between the value of its trait and the optimal phenotype characterizing the...

Presented is a simple model, based on computer simulations, of a population colonizing an adjacent habitat with different living conditions. Members of the population are characterized (apart from their positions on the lattice) by a single feature—a qualitative trait (phenotype). Its...

We present supplementary investigations referring to the model of an evolving population described in Physica A 252 (1998) 325.

A simulation model of a population having internal (genetic) structure is presented. The population is subject to selection pressure coming from the environment which is the same in the whole system but changes in time. Reproduction has a sexual character with recombination and mutation. Two...

A simple dynamic model is constructed to describe evolutionary changes in populations characterized by a single, quantitative character. The populations interact via gene flow under stabilizing selection. Using standard Monte Carlo simulations we find, in agreement with biological data, that...

A model of a system of populations (metapopulation) is presented in which a population is characterized by a mean phenotype (or equivalently a continuous character) averaged over all individuals belonging to the population. The populations interact by exchanging genetic information (gene flow)...