An optimizing principle of natural selection in evolutionary population genetics.

doi:10.1016/0040-5809(92)90019-p

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An optimizing principle of natural selection in evolutionary population genetics.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 1992

Ewens W J

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This paper brings together two themes in evolutionary population genetics theory. The first concerns Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection: a recent interpretation of this theorem claims that it is an exact result, relating to the so-called "partial" increase in mean fitness. The seco...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Biological Evolution
Chromosome Mapping
Genetics, Population
Humans
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Recombination, Genetic
Selection, Genetic

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