Natural selection maximizes Fisher information
@article{Frank2009NaturalSM,
title={Natural selection maximizes Fisher information},
author={Steven A. Frank},
journal={Journal of Evolutionary Biology},
year={2009},
volume={22}
}In biology, information flows from the environment to the genome by the process of natural selection. However, it has not been clear precisely what sort of information metric properly describes natural selection. Here, I show that Fisher information arises as the intrinsic metric of natural selection and evolutionary dynamics. Maximizing the amount of Fisher information about the environment captured by the population leads to Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, the most profound…Â
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