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Hard and Soft Selection Revisited: How Evolution by Natural Selection Works in the Real World.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2016

Reznick David

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The modern synthesis of evolutionary biology unified Darwin's natural selection with Mendelian genetics, but at the same time it created the dilemma of genetic load. Lewontin and Hubby's (1966) and Harris's (1966) characterization of genetic variation in natural populations increased the apparent burden of this load. Neutrality or near neutrality of genetic variation was one mechanism proposed for the revealed...

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PMID: 26424874
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esv076

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