Equilibrium was reached within 300,000 simulated generations in every run
Evidence
The parameters D and L were assumed to have reached steady state or equilibrium when their values changed by less than 0.00001 (changes in the sixth decimal place) per 1000 generations. Of course, these values are not true equilibria because selection varies randomly; however, the induced changes in gene frequency were very small. In every case tested, this occurred well within 300,000 generations, so we routinely ran al simulations to 300,000 generations to assure that equilibrium was reached. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 68
Categorization
Category: Craft and Method
- SHARE: Good methodological detail — the stochastic-selection caveat and the convergence criterion — for anyone modeling gene-culture coevolution.