With a little help from my friends: cooperation can accelerate the rate of adaptive valley crossing.

Uri ObolskiOhad Lewin-EpsteinEran Even-TovYoav RamLilach Hadany

Published in: BMC evolutionary biology (2017)

We provide a new explanation to adaptive valley crossing in natural populations and suggest that the long term evolution of a species depends on its social behavior.

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