An optimizing principle of natural selection in evolutionary population genetics

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(92)90019-PzbMath0768.92018OpenAlexW1987589546WikidataQ43794620 ScholiaQ43794620MaRDI QIDQ1803897

Warren J. Ewens

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(92)90019-p

zbMATH Keywords

optimality principlegeneralized distance measureFisher's fundamental theorem of natural selectionevolutionary population geneticsnatural selection gene frequencyparent and daughter generationpartial increase in mean fitness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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