Sewall Wright's graphical visualization of the fitness landscape (Wright, 1932) is reputed to
be one of the most famous metaphors in the history of biology (Dietrich & Skipper, 2012). On …

Few metaphors in biology are more enduring than the idea of Adaptive Landscapes,
originally proposed by Sewall Wright (1932) as a way to visually present to an audience of …

Early on, the review refers briefly to connections between the famous 'adaptive landscape'of
Sewall Wright and the 'pairwise invasibility plots' used in adaptive dynamics. The image of …

The metaphor of the adaptive landscape-that evolution via the process of natural selection
can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines …

1.1 Introduction that the Adaptive Landscape was independently co-discovered, before
turning to the conceptual and representational lineages of different forms of the Adaptive …

The adaptive landscape is an important diagrammatic concept that was conceived in
population genetics. During the Modern Synthesis, in the first half of the twentieth century …

The concepts of adaptive/fitness landscapes and adaptive peaks are a central part of much
of contemporary evolutionary biology; the concepts are introduced in introductory texts …

Sewall Wright introduced the metaphor of evolution on “adaptive landscapes” in a pair of
papers published in 1931 and 1932. The metaphor has been one of the most influential in …

Background Wright's metaphor of the fitness landscape has shaped and conditioned our
view of the adaptation of populations for almost a century. Since its inception, and including …

The adaptive landscape is a metaphorical device employed to depict the evolutionary
change in a population or lineage undergoing natural selection. It is a powerful heuristic and …