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Cultural transmission of fitness: genes take the fast lane.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Apr 2005
Heyer Evelyne, Sibert Alexandre, Austerlitz Frédéric
Abstract excerpt
Classical population genetics describes how the fate of an allele is driven by four forces: mutation, migration, selection and drift. However, these are sometimes insufficient to explain how the observed allele frequency changes and, therefore, another factor must be invoked: cultural transmission of fitness (CTF). CTF is the non-genetic transmission of any kind of behaviour that affects reproductive success....
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