Abstract
During the last 70 years Sewall Wright’s metaphor of ‘fitness landscapes’, which are also known as ‘adaptive landscapes’, ‘adaptive topographies’, and ‘surfaces of selective value’, has been a standard tool for visualizing biological evolution and speciation and has also found numerous application well outside of evolutionary biology (e.g., in computer science, engineering, biochemistry, and philosophy). This article reviews the classical definitions of fitness landscapes and their more recent generalizations. Also discussed are the three canonical types of landscapes (rugged, single peak, and flat) as well as holey fitness landscapes that became the focus of much of recent work. The emphasis is on the biological properties captured by different types of landscapes and on the biological problems these landscapes have been applied to.
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