Fitness Landscape & Adaptive Walk
Rugged NK fitness landscape (Kauffman). Populations climb fitness peaks via mutation+selection. Epistasis (K) controls landscape ruggedness — high K creates many local optima (evolutionary traps).
Populations:
20
Mutation:
0.020
Epistasis K:
3
Speed
Reset
Pause
Generation:
0
Mean fitness:
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Max fitness:
—
Peaks found:
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