https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510051197
Model of population evolution with and without eugenics
1
Institute of Microbiology, University of Wrocław, ul. S. Przybyszewskiego 63/77,
51-114 Wrocław, Poland
2
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204
Wrocław, Poland
Corresponding author: a apekal@ift.uni.wroc.pl
Received:
8
April
1999
Published online: 15 October 1999
We propose, and solve via Monte-Carlo simulation, a model describing evolution of population subject to harmful mutations. The habitat changes periodically. The evolution of two, initially identical, populations is compared. One without any external ingerence and the second in which we eliminate all individuals which are ill-fitted to the changed environment (eugenics). We show that although in the short run the individuals in the latter are better adapted and live longer, after some more changes of the environment, the populations with eugenics become extinct, while the others live on.
PACS: 87.10.+e – General theory and mathematical aspects / 02.70.Lq – Monte-Carlo and statistical methods
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1999