A Simulation of Rapid Evolution: Its Development in the Object-Oriented Paradigm

Abstract

This project centered around an event in population genetics, the modeling necessary to explain it, and the way that the object-oriented paradigm influenced the implementation of the model. This paper is divided into three major sections which echo the three lines of investigation in the project. The first section is a summary of the concepts and terminology of genetics necessary for the understanding of what follows. The second is a description of the model and its results. The third is a report on the process of moving the software from a procedural language to an object-oriented one.