Natural selection in human populations.

"For the first full meeting of the newly formed Society for the Study of Human Biology, it seemed appropriate to address that biological field in which the most notable recent progress has been made: human genetics. Since the meeting was held in 1958, the centenary of the publication of Darwin-...

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Other Authors: D.F. Roberts and (Ed.), G. A.Harrison (Ed.)
Format: Book
Published: New York, Estados Unidos : Pergamon Press, 1959.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Natural selection in man: some basic problems. 2. Mathematical models for selection. 3. The relative fitness of human mutant genes. 4. Natural selection and some polymorphc characters. 5. On selection of gene systems in natural populations. 6. Rate of change in primate evolution.