The value of such analogies is twofold. On the one hand, they bring the large repertoire of results and techniques derived in condensed matter and nonequilibrium physics to bear on evolutionary dynamics; an example is the forward approximation \ref{FWA}. Conversely, the link between evolution and the physics of disordered media can stimulate new work in physics and mathematics. As already mentioned, the generator of selection-diffusion dynamics is not always Hermitian (it is not in Eigen's model). This suggests that some of the  results usually derived for random Schrödinger operators can likely be generalized for more general classes classes of operators, as already emphasized by Altenberg \cite{Altenberg_2012}.