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1. INTRODUCTION

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© 2020 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. PREFACE ix
  4. 1. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. 2. GENETIC VARIATION, DARWINIAN FITNESS, AND GENETIC LOAD 8
  6. 3. STUDIES OF IRRADIATED POPULATIONS 23
  7. 4. RANDOM MUTATIONS AND VIABILITY 49
  8. 5. DILEMMAS AND OPTIONS 68
  9. 6. HARD AND SOFT SELECTION 80
  10. 7. PERSISTENCE: AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF POPULATION FITNESS 104
  11. 8. SELF-CULLING AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POPULATIONS 111
  12. 9. SUMMARIZING REMARKS 133
  13. 10. STILL TO COME ... 139
  14. REFERENCES 161
  15. INDEX 171
Fifty Years of Genetic Load
This chapter is in the book Fifty Years of Genetic Load
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501739071-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. PREFACE ix
  4. 1. INTRODUCTION 1
  5. 2. GENETIC VARIATION, DARWINIAN FITNESS, AND GENETIC LOAD 8
  6. 3. STUDIES OF IRRADIATED POPULATIONS 23
  7. 4. RANDOM MUTATIONS AND VIABILITY 49
  8. 5. DILEMMAS AND OPTIONS 68
  9. 6. HARD AND SOFT SELECTION 80
  10. 7. PERSISTENCE: AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF POPULATION FITNESS 104
  11. 8. SELF-CULLING AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POPULATIONS 111
  12. 9. SUMMARIZING REMARKS 133
  13. 10. STILL TO COME ... 139
  14. REFERENCES 161
  15. INDEX 171
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