Modelling the Evolution of Spatially Distributed Populations in the Uniformly Changing Environment - Sympatric Speciation

Understand

We have simulated the evolution of age structured populations whose individuals represented by their diploid genomes were distributed on a square lattice.

• The environmental conditions on the whole territory changed simultaneously in the same way by switching on or off some requirements.
• Mutations accumulated in the genes dispensable during a given period of time were neutral, but they could cause a genetic death of individuals if the environment required their functions again.
• Populations survived due to retaining some surplus of genetic information in the individual genomes.