Assembly Fitness Landscape

Explore how organisms navigate fundamental evolutionary trade-offs to reach optimal solutions.

Trait Optimization Space

X-axis: Generalization ↔ Specialization

Z-axis: Energy Efficiency ↔ Processing Power

Y-axis: Overall Fitness (height)

Different solutions represent distinct strategies for navigating these fundamental trade-offs.

Solution Types & Trade-offs

Vision - High specialization, moderate processing
Flight - High specialization, energy efficient
Echolocation - Specialized, high processing power
Social Networks - Generalist, moderate processing
Photosynthesis - Generalist, energy efficient

Evolutionary Organisms

Early stage organisms
Advanced organisms

Dot size indicates fitness level.
Hover over dots to see organism details.