Unless selection is very intense, the number of deaths needed to secure the substitution, by natural selection, of one gene for another at a locus, is independent of the intensity of selection. It is often about 30 times the number of organisms in a generation. It is suggested that, in horotelic evolution, the mean time taken for each gene substitution is . about 300 generations. This accords with the observed slowness of evolution. © 1957 Indian Academy of Sciences.
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Haldane, J. B. S. (1957). The cost of natural selection. Journal of Genetics, 55(3), 511–524. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984069
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