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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*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
