Cameron · Smith
This picture symbolizes much of what we know about fitness landscapes: Fascinating, important, but mostly in the dark. We often don't know what axes to use, let alone how to navigate them. A key goal of EvoSysBio is to quantify various aspects of fitness landscapes to improve our understanding of this important metaphor.
Evolutionary Systems Biology aims to bring together the rich mechanistic details of current systems biology and the long-standing quantitative experience of evolutionary genetics in order to increase the quantitative rigor of biological analyses. We have provided a short introduction on our website , for a more thorough introduction and definition of EvoSysBio, see this free chapter from the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (2016) .
Nothing in biology makes sense except when properly quantified in the light of evolution.
Cameron · Smith