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The logarithm of the fitness of an individual with<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>mutations is assumed to be a quadratic, decreasing function of<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>. The equilibrium properties of infinitely large asexual populations, random-mating populations lacking genetic recombination, and random-mating populations with arbitrary recombination frequencies are investigated. With \u2018synergistic\u2019 epistasis on the scale of log fitness, such that log fitness declines more steeply as<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>increases, it is shown that equilibrium mean fitness is least for asexual populations. In sexual populations, mean fitness increases with the number of chromosomes and with the map length per chromosome. With \u2018diminishing returns\u2019 epistasis, such that log fitness declines less steeply as<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>increases, mean fitness behaves in the opposite way. Selection on asexual variants and genes affecting the rate of genetic recombination in random-mating populations was also studied. With synergistic epistasis, zero recombination always appears to be disfavoured, but free recombination is disfavoured when the mutation rate per genome is sufficiently small, leading to evolutionary stability of maps of intermediate length. With synergistic epistasis, an asexual mutant is unlikely to invade a sexual population if the mutation rate per diploid genome greatly exceeds unity. Recombination is selectively disadvantageous when there is diminishing returns epistasis. 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