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Selection in populations with overlapping generations. I. The use of Malthusian parameters in population genetics.
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It is shown that certain assumptions which are often made in using Malthusian parameters are not generally applicable and may sometimes lead to inaccurate results, and Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of natural selection is not exact.About:
This article is published in Theoretical Population Biology.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 97 citations till now.read more
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On the Evolution and Adaptive Significance of Postnatal Growth Rates in the Terrestrial Vertebrates
TL;DR: The results of this analysis support the notion that growth rate is adapted to certain features of an animal's environment, which will be altered in an empirically appropriate direction with changes in these environmental parameters.
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Climate, habitat quality, and fitness in northern spotted owl populations in northwestern california
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied a population of marked Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) on 95 territories in northwestern California from 1985 through 1994 and found that annual survival varied the least over time, whereas recruitment rate varied the most, suggesting a "bet-hedging" life history strategy for the owl.
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The Biological Homology Concept
TL;DR: This chapter reviews the open biological questions associated with the homology concept and the different attempts to establish a biological basis for homology in comparative anatomy.
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Fisher, Medawar, Hamilton and the evolution of aging.
TL;DR: The idea that senescent decline in the performance of biological systems must have an evolutionary basis traces back almost to the beginnings of evolutionary biology, although Darwin does not seem to have discussed the problem.
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The Demographic Genetics of Liatris cylindracea Michx. (Compositae)
TL;DR: It is concluded that individual heterozygosity is being selected for in a population of Liatris cylindracea; plants flowering after 2 seasons being more heterozygous than plants which do not flower.
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The Interaction of Selection and Linkage. I. General Considerations; Heterotic Models.
TL;DR: The results of these investigations were sufficient to show that even for relatively simple cases (two loci, simple symmetrical selective values) linkage might have profound effects on the course of natural selection and, pari passu, natural selection may have major effect on the distribution of coupling and repulsion linkage in a population.
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A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection, Part V: Selection and Mutation
TL;DR: This work shall first consider initial conditions, when only a few of the new type exist as the result of a single mutation; and then the course of events in a population where the new factor is present in such numbers as to be in no danger of extinction by mere bad luck.