Self-replicating artificial neural networks give rise to universal evolutionary dynamics
Fig 4
Genotype frequency dynamics: site 62.
Due to clonal interference, the total frequency of all genotypes carrying a site-62 mutant allele (black) is much higher than the frequencies of any site-62 genotypes; three genotypes that reached 60% are in green, blue, and orange. The inset shows the fertility and mutation rate of the different genotypes decreasing over time, although the decrease in fertility (0.14%) is minor compared the decrease in mutation rate (19.43%; Table F in S1 Text). These alleles and genotypes appeared more than once during the experiment, in multiple and different parental genotypes (e.g., m62 occurred 10,702 times during the experiment). Frequency lines smoothed for visualization using a rolling average over 10 generations.