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Population Genetics and Evolution

by Jong, Gerdina. Published by : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (Berlin, Heidelberg :) ISBN:9783642730696; 9783642730719 (print).

Year: 1988

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	KUFOS Central Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	576.5 DEJ/PO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		09044

Contents: Introduction: The Place of Population Genetics in Evolutionary Biology -- Is Population Genetics Necessary for the Theory of Evolution?: Population Genetics as a Core Theory. Quantitative Genetics and Evolution. Development and Selection -- Is Population Genetics in its Present Scope Sufficient for a Theory of Evolution?: Adaptation. Population Structure. Developmental Constraints. Extrapolations -- Subject Index.

This volume reevaluates the position of population genetics in evolutionary biology by using population genetics as the tool to study the role of development and adaptation in evolution. The emphasis is on the organismic process of selection, and on how the study of selection means connecting variation at the molecular, biochemical, and phenotypic levels of organization with the resulting variation in fitness. This book illustrates that the tendency to view single locus differences in isolation as the building blocks of evolution is disappearing. Population genetics proves to be a wider field than just the study of single gene differences.

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