Population Genetics

The key to understanding population genetics is gaining familiarity with a set of traditional conceptual approaches along with classical hypotheses and debates. Armed with this background, many empirical studies will be readily understood because the basic hypotheses they address are understood from first principles. To achieve this goal, this book is designed to contain mostly conceptual material that is augmented with case studies as illustrations. Several outstanding pedagogical features including methods boxes and exercises to assist students in conducting simulations using public domain software will be integrated into the text.

Spis treści:
1. Thinking like a population geneticist
2. Genotype frequencies
3. Genetic drift and effective population size
4. Population structure and gene flow
5. Mutation
6. Fundamentals of natural selection
7. Further models of natural selection
8. Molecular evolution
9. Quantitative trait variation and evolution
10. The Mendelian basis of quantitative trait variation
11. Historical and synthetic topics
Appendix


Nota biograficzna:
Matthew B. Hamilton teaches population genetics, evolutionary processes, and similar undergraduate and graduate courses at Georgetown University. He conducts research on the processes that shape genetic variation within species using molecular genetic markers as well as predictive mathematical models.

Okładka tylna:
The key to understanding population genetics is gaining familiarity with a set of traditional conceptual approaches along with classical hypotheses and debates. Armed with this background, many empirical studies will be readily understood because the basic hypotheses they address are understood from first principles. To achieve this goal, this book is designed to contain mostly conceptual material that is augmented with case studies as illustrations. Several outstanding pedagogical feature s including methods boxes and exercises to assist students in conducting simulations using public domain software will be integrated into the text.