Feldman Mathematical Evolutionary Theory

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5983-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront of modern evolutionary theory. Their articles illustrate results from the latest research in population and behavioral genetics, molecular evolution, and ecology. Each author gives careful attention to the exposition of the models, the logic of their analysis, and the legitimacy of qualitative biological inferences. The topics covered include stochastic models of finite populations and the sorts of diffusion approximations that are valid for their study, models of migration, kin selection, geneculture coevolution, sexual selection, life-history evolution, the statistics of linkage disequilibrium, and the molecular evolution of repeated DNA sequences and the HLA system in humans.

The fourteen contributions are presented in two sections: Part I, Stochastic and Deterministic Genetic Theory, and Part II, Behavior, Ecology, and Evolutionary Genetics. Marcus W. Feldman provides an introduction to each part. The contributors are J. G. Bodmer, W. F. Bodmer, L. L. Cavalli Sforza, F. B. Christiansen, C. Cockerham, W. J. Ewens, M. W. Feldman, J. H. Gillespie, R. R. Hudson, N. L. Kaplan, S. Lessard, U. Liberman, M.E.N. Majerus, P. O'Donald, J. Roughgarden, S. Tavar, M. K. Uyenoyama, G. A. Watterson, and B. Weir.

Originally published in 1989.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldman, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
Preface, pg. ix
1. The Effective Population Sizes In The Presence Of Catastrophes, pg. 9
2. The Neutral Alleles Model With Bottlenecks, pg. 26
3. The Genealogy Of The Birth, Death, And Immigration, pg. 41
4. When Not To Use Diffusion Processes In Population Genetics, pg. 57
5. The Effect Of Population Subdivision On Multiple Loci Without Selection, pg. 71
6. Complete Characterization Of Disequilibrium At Two Loci, pg. 86
7. The Reduction Principle For Genetic Modifiers Of The Migration Rate, pg. 111
8. On The Theory Of Evolution Under Genetic And Cultural Transmission, With Application To The Lactose Absorption Problem, pg. 139
9. Two-Locus Models Of Kin Selection Among Haplodiploids: Effects Of Recombination And Epistasis On Relatedness, pg. 174
10. Resource Allocation In Mendelian Populations: Further In Ess Theory, pg. 207
11. Sexual Selection Models And The Evolution Of Melanism In Ladybirds, pg. 247
12. The Evolution Of Marine Life Cycles, pg. 270
13. An Evolutionary Model For Highly Repeated Interspersed Dna Sequences, pg. 301
14. Statistics And Population Genetics Of The HLA System, pg. 315
List Of Contributors, pg. 335
Index, pg. 337