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Population Genetics and Evolution

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Gerdina Jong

    1. Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction: The Place of Population Genetics in Evolutionary Biology

    1. Introduction: The Place of Population Genetics in Evolutionary Biology

      • G. de Jong, W. Scharloo
      Pages 1-11

  3. Is Population Genetics Necessary for the Theory of Evolution?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    4. Development and Selection

      1. Components of Selection: An Expanded Theory of Natural Selection
        • J. Tuomi, T. Vuorisalo, P. Laihonen
        Pages 109-118
      2. The Genetics of Information and the Evolution of Avatars
        • P.-H. Gouyon, C. Gliddon
        Pages 119-123
      3. Sib Competition as an Element of Genotype-Environment Interaction for Body Size in the Great Tit
        • A. J. van Noordwijk
        Pages 124-137
      4. The Measured Genotype Approach to Ecological Genetics
        • A. R. Templeton, J. S. Johnston
        Pages 138-146

  4. Is Population Genetics in Its Present Scope Sufficient for a Theory of Evolution?

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      Pages 147-147
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At least since the 1940s neo-Darwinism has prevailed as the consensus view in the study of evolution. The mechanism of evolution in this view is natural selection leading to adaptation, working on a substrate of adapta­ tionally random mutations. As both the study of genetic variation in natural populations, and the study of the mathematical equations of selec­ tion are reckoned to a field called population genetics, population genetics came to form the core in the theory of evolution. So much so, that the fact that there is more to the theory of evolution than population genetics became somewhat obscured. The genetics of the evolutionary process, or the genetics of evolutionary change, came close to being all of evolutionary biology. In the last 10 years, this dominating position of population genetics within evolutionary biology has been challenged. In evolutionary ecology, optimization theory proved more useful than population genetics for interesting predictions, especially of life history strategies. From develop­ mental biology, constraints in development and the role of internal regula­ tion were emphasized. From paleobiology, a proposal was put forward to describe the fossil record and the evolutionary process as a series of punc­ tuated equilibria; thus exhorting population geneticists to give a plausible account of how such might come about. All these developments tend to obscure the central role of population genetics in evolutionary biology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerdina Jong

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Population Genetics and Evolution

  • Editors: Gerdina Jong

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73069-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73071-9Published: 30 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73069-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 282

  • Topics: Ecology, Cell Biology, Zoology, Plant Sciences

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