Recent evolutionary models have introduced "small mutation rates" as a way of refining predictions of long-run behavior. We show that if mutation rates are allowed to vary across states, then mutations no longer narrow the set of possible preditions. In particular, given any model of the effect of mutations, any invariant distribution of the "mutationless" process is close to an invariant distribution of the process with appropriately chosen small mutation rates.
External Notes
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Sponsorship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP94/11
Subject – LCSH
Evolution
Game theory
Probabilities
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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