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Natural selection. III. Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Feb 2012

Frank S A

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George Williams defined an evolutionary unit as hereditary information for which the selection bias between competing units dominates the informational decay caused by imperfect transmission. In this article, I extend Williams' approach to show that the ratio of selection bias to transmission bias provides a unifying framework for diverse biological problems. Specific examples include Haldane and Lande's...

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PMID: 22150796
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02431.x
PMCID: PMC3258362

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