An optimizing principle of natural selection in evolutionary population genetics

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(92)90019-PMaRDI QIDQ1803897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors W. 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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