Using Fitness Landscapes to Visualize Evolution in Action

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/