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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Evolution. 2013 Dec 4;68(4):950–964. doi: 10.1111/evo.12313

Table 2.

Alternative distance metrics for quantifying the amount of evolutionary change over the two 1000-generation evolutionary trajectories shown in Figure 7. Rescaled space uses the M-matrix as a metric tensor, normalizing phenotypic change by the amount of mutational variance along a trajectory Populations 1 and 2 are those whose phenotypic optimum is at point (150, 450) and (450, 150) in phenotypic space, respectively.

Population 1 Population 2
Euclidean distance traveled in phenotypic space 132.7 204.5
Total length of trajectory in phenotypic space 150.5 221.1
Euclidean distance traveled in rescaled space 64.8 57.9
Total length of trajectory in rescaled space 78.6 71.4