Fundamental theorem of natural selection under gene-culture transmission.

doi:10.1073/pnas.88.11.4874

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Fundamental theorem of natural selection under gene-culture transmission.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Jun 1991

Findlay C S

Abstract excerpt

A generalized fundamental theorem of natural selection is derived for populations incorporating both genetic and cultural transmission. The phenotype is determined by an arbitrary number of multiallelic loci with two-factor epistasis and an arbitrary linkage map, as well as by cultural transmissi...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Culture
Fertility
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Genotype
Haploidy
Humans
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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