  We study the adaptive dynamics of predator-prey systems modeled by a
dynamical system in which the traits of predators and prey are allowed to
evolve by small mutations. When only the prey are allowed to evolve, and the
size of the mutational change tends to 0, the system does not exhibit long term
prey coexistence and the trait of the resident prey type converges to the
solution of an ODE. When only the predators are allowed to evolve, coexistence
of predators occurs. In this case, depending on the parameters being varied, we
see (i) the number of coexisting predators remains tight and the differences in
traits from a reference species converge in distribution to a limit, or (ii)
the number of coexisting predators tends to infinity, and we calculate the
asymptotic rate at which the traits of the least and most "fit" predators in
the population increase. This last result is obtained by comparison with a
branching random walk killed to the left of a linear boundary and a finite
branching-selection particle system.
