Ebook: The Genetic Structure of Populations
- Tags: Mathematics general, Economics/Management Science general
- Series: Biomathematics 5
- Year: 1974
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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It is part of the ideology of science that it is an international enterprise, carried out by a community that knows no barriers of nation or culture. But the reality is somewhat different. Despite the best intentions of scientists to form a single community, unseparated by differences of national and political viewpoint, they are, in fact, separated by language. Scientific literature in German is not generally assimilated by French workers, nor that appearing in French by those whose native language is English. The problem appears to have become more severe since the last war, because the ascendance of the United States as the preeminent economic power led, in a time of big and expensive science, to a pre dominance of American scientific production and a growing tendency (at least among English-speakers) to regard English as the international language of science. International congresses and journals of world circulation have come more and more to take English as their standard or official language. As a result, students and scientific workers in the English speaking world have become more linguistically parochial than ever before and have been cut off from a considerable scientific literature. Population genetics has been no exception to the rule. The elegant and extremely innovative theoreticaI work of Malecot, for example, is only now being properly assimilated by population biologists outside France. It was therefore with some sense of frustration that I read Prof.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Foundations of Genetics....Pages 6-24
Basic Concepts and Notation. Genetic Structure of Populations and of Individuals....Pages 25-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium for one Locus....Pages 42-65
The Equilibrium for Two Loci....Pages 66-85
The Inheritance of Quantitative Characters....Pages 86-101
Genetic Relationships between Relatives....Pages 102-140
Overlapping Generations....Pages 141-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Finite Populations....Pages 160-219
Deviations from Random Mating....Pages 220-268
Selection....Pages 269-330
Mutation....Pages 331-350
Migration....Pages 351-387
The Combined Effects of Different Evolutionary Forces....Pages 388-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Genetic Distance. I. Basic Concepts and Methods....Pages 420-462
Genetic Distance. II. The Representation of Sets of Objects....Pages 463-493
Some Studies of Human Populations....Pages 494-529
Conclusion....Pages 530-532
Back Matter....Pages 533-572
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Foundations of Genetics....Pages 6-24
Basic Concepts and Notation. Genetic Structure of Populations and of Individuals....Pages 25-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium for one Locus....Pages 42-65
The Equilibrium for Two Loci....Pages 66-85
The Inheritance of Quantitative Characters....Pages 86-101
Genetic Relationships between Relatives....Pages 102-140
Overlapping Generations....Pages 141-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Finite Populations....Pages 160-219
Deviations from Random Mating....Pages 220-268
Selection....Pages 269-330
Mutation....Pages 331-350
Migration....Pages 351-387
The Combined Effects of Different Evolutionary Forces....Pages 388-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Genetic Distance. I. Basic Concepts and Methods....Pages 420-462
Genetic Distance. II. The Representation of Sets of Objects....Pages 463-493
Some Studies of Human Populations....Pages 494-529
Conclusion....Pages 530-532
Back Matter....Pages 533-572
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