The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.
being lower in position, degree, rank, or merit; a state of mind where one belittles themselves; makes oneself feel unimportant or worthless.
A measure which determines how much worse a particular genotype is than the genotype which is currently dominating the system. The inferiority of creature i is i = log(fitnessbest) - log(fitnessi) In avida, fitness is taken as the logarithm of the actual (purely computational) replication rate because merits are doled out using an exponential scheme (see Fitness).