Article
Recent development of the neutral theory viewed from the Wrightian tradition of theoretical population genetics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jul 1991
Kimura M
Abstract excerpt
In contrast to the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection, the neutral theory emphasizes the great importance of random genetic drift (due to finite population size) and mutation pressure as the main causes of molecular evolution. In this paper, after a brief review of the neutral theory, recent data strongly supporting the neutral theory are presented. Also discussed are such topics as compensatory...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Codon
- DNA
- Genes
- Genetics, Population
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Statistical
- Phenotype