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The rise of the neutral theory of evolution has aroused a renewed interest in the quantitative approach to population genetics, and the aim of this book is to explain this field to biologists with a limited amount of mathematical expertise.
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Wright-Fisher, Moran and other models; on the description of changes in allele frequency; survival of new mutations, branching processes; probability of fixation, the more general case; notes on continuous approximations; mean sojourn, absorption and fixation times; introduction to probability distributions, probability flux; stationary distributions, frequency spectra; diffusion methods; general comments and conclusions.
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The rise of the neutral theory of evolution has aroused a renewed interest in the quantitative approach to population genetics, and the aim of this book is to explain this field to biologists with a limited amount of mathematical expertise.
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The author of this book sets out to accomplish a very difficult task....In my view the author is successful...I recommend the book to all biologists.. - Theoretical Population Genetics
