Components of fitness become effectively neutral in equilibrium populations
Components of fitness become effectively neutral in equilibrium populations is a scholarly work, published in 1990 in ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America''. The main subjects of the publication include evolutionary biology, fitness, Neutral network, The Evolution of Cooperation, genetic correlation, biology, correlation, evolutionary dynamics, neutrality, evolution, neutral theory of molecular evolution, fitness landscape, and neutral mutation. If, because of trade-offs or similar considerations, components of fitness are negatively correlated in equilibrium populations, they may then exhibit no correlation with total fitness.