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Selection and covariance.
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This is a preliminary communication describing applications to genetical selection of a new mathematical treatment of selection in general.Abstract:
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Estimation of Genetic Variance in Fitness, and Inference of Adaptation, When Fitness Follows a Log-Normal Distribution.
TL;DR: The results illustrate the correspondence between quantitative genetics and population dynamics encapsulated in the FTNS and its log-normal-analog and the appropriate interpretation of GLAM parameter estimates, and how well the relevant parameters can be estimated by animal models, comparing Gaussian models with Poisson GLAMs.
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Natural selection maximizes Fisher information
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that maximizing the amount of Fisher information about the environment captured by the population leads to Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, the most profound statement about how natural selection influences evolutionary dynamics.
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Group and individual selection during evolutionary transitions in individuality: meanings and partitions.
TL;DR: A partition of group and individual selection based on counterfactual fitness describes the fitness that grouped cells would have were they solitary, and can be a basis for quantifying progression through an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI).
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On price's equation and average fitness
TL;DR: The relations between Price's equation and equations for evolutionary change using average fitness are closer than sometimes supposed, and the two approaches achieve a similar kind of statistical summary of one generation of change through a similar loss of information about the underlying fitness structure.
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The price of altruism
TL;DR: George Price made three profound contributions to evolutionary theory; his equation for the effect of selection on a trait provided the foundation for the modern analysis of social evolution and established the generality of Fisher’s theorem.