Figure 6. The contribution of intensity and form of the fitness function on the extent to which mutation and recombination augment rates of adaptive evolution; mean and standard error of the time before the population reaches its maximum value for different values of the exponent e, and recombination rate parameter (χ).

For the latter −15 is χ = 10⁻¹⁵ and −14 is χ = 10⁻¹⁴. In all simulations, μ = 10⁻⁸, N_T = 10⁸, c = 0.5. Each simulation was initiated with 10 randomly chosen genotypes and 50 independent simulations were run with each set of parameters.