Fundamental theorem of natural selection in biocultural populations.

doi:10.1016/0040-5809(90)90020-v

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Fundamental theorem of natural selection in biocultural populations.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 1990

Findlay S

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I derive a general equation for the evolution of mean biological fitness in large, randomly mating populations in which the phenotype is subject to both biological and cultural transmission and in which fitness and the effects of cultural transmission are genotype-dependent. The equation is dm/dt...

Topics

Adaptation, Physiological
Culture
Genetics, Population
Genotype
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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