Figure 2
Effectiveness of learning dictates its effect on genetic drift. Temporal dynamics of the number of alleles present in populations of prey subject to predation. Panels (a–d) show different settings on the upper bound on the probability of avoiding or escaping predator attack. Panels (e–h) show age distributions for panels (a–d) (in order). All prey populations consist of 1000 individuals at the beginning of each time step. Individuals killed by predators are replaced at the end of each step through the reproduction of surviving individuals ("Methods"). Predators consume 500 prey individuals per time. Predators kill the same number of individuals in both learning and non-learning scenarios to allow for a fair comparison. Each panel shows 20 simulation runs for both learning and non-learning scenarios.
