Molecular population genetics and evolution

Abstract

This monograph discusses experimental and theoretical studies concerning a new interdisciplinary biological science, the molecular population genetics and evolution. After a short introductory chapter, the chapters 2 (on evolutionary history of life) and 3 (mutation) are concerned chiefly with an analysis of experimental data. Chapter 4 (natural selection and its effects) and 5 (mutant genes in finite populations) deal with various mathematical models and are chiefly theoretical. In chapters 6 (genetic variability in natural populations), 7 (differentiation of populations and speciation) and 8 (long term evolution), the validity of mathematical studies is tested by empirical data. The book contains 23 figures, 39 tables and an extensive list of references. The author and subject index concludes the monograph.