Bjørn Østman and Randy Olson demonstrate how fitness landscapes can be used to visualize concepts about evolution that are typically hard to understand.

Music by STRFKR - "Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second"

This video has been submitted to the ALife 2014 Science Visualization Competition: http://blogs.cornell.edu/alife14nyc/science-visualization-competition-print-media/

See our other video visualizing coevolution on fitness landscapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTBUIJwlVBg

If you would like GIFs of the visualizations in this video, see the following web pages:

Dynamic fitness landscapes: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/04/17/visualizing-evolution-in-action-dynamic-fitness-landscapes/

Density-dependence: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/04/17/visualizing-evolution-in-action-density-dependence-and-sympatr...

Survival of the flattest: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/04/17/visualizing-evolution-in-action-survival-of-the-flattest/