A fitness landscape is the total set of objective forces that determine the efficacy of some given strategy to generate actual wellbeing. Fitness landscapes are typically pictured as topographies such as this:
Where a point is the combination of some being strategy (e.g,. being a brown rabbit) in some environment where "peak" is a point of high wellbeing (
(e.g., in a temparate forest) and a "valley" is a point of low wellbeing (e.g., in the arctic).
The strategy of searching a fitness landscape by attempting to always go "up" is called Hill Climbing.
The strategy of searching a fitness landscape by being willing to go down in exchange for eventually finding a higher peak is called Valley Crossing
Where a point is the combination of some being strategy (e.g,. being a brown rabbit) in some environment where "peak" is a point of high wellbeing (
(e.g., in a temparate forest) and a "valley" is a point of low wellbeing (e.g., in the arctic).
The strategy of searching a fitness landscape by attempting to always go "up" is called Hill Climbing.
The strategy of searching a fitness landscape by being willing to go down in exchange for eventually finding a higher peak is called Valley Crossing
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