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The geometry of adaptation

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Figure 1: Approach of a population towards an optimum through selection of a series of random mutations, through a space of ten dimensions.

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Barton, N. The geometry of adaptation. Nature 395, 751–752 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/27338

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