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Relaxed selection can speed the evolution of complex adaptations

Jeremy A Draghi
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C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
Luis Zaman
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Abstract Natural selection drives adaptive evolution and removes deleterious mutations; these effects are countervailing when a complex adaptation requires mutations that are initially deleterious when they arise, but beneficial in combination. While many models of this dynamic consider how genetic drift or other influences can aid valley crossing by weakening selection, we lack a general, analytical treatment of when relaxed selection might speed this type of adaptation. Here we use simulation and analysis to show that relaxed selection is generally favorable for valley-crossing when adaptive pathways require more than a single deleterious step. We also demonstrate that spatial heterogeneity in selection pressures could, by relaxing selection, allow populations to cross valleys much more rapidly than expected. These results relate to several applications of evolutionary theory to complex systems ranging from host-pathogen evolution to search algorithms in computer science.
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hal-04646746 , version 1 (12-07-2024)

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Jeremy A Draghi, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Luis Zaman, Todd L Parsons. Relaxed selection can speed the evolution of complex adaptations. 2024. ⟨hal-04646746⟩
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