Figure 2
From: Plasticity-led evolution as an intrinsic property of developmental gene regulatory networks
Simulating plasticity-led evolution. During each epoch, a population of individuals is subject to selection under a constant macro-environment. Each epoch lasts for 200 generations. At the end of each epoch, the macro-environment is changed by randomly flipping 50% of the environmental factors. This process is repeated so that the population is subject to selection under 50 different environments in turn. The first 40 epochs are the training phase; we tracked the final ten epochs to assess plasticity-led evolution.
