Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 4: Variability Within and Among Natural Populations

by Sewall Wright

Overview

"Wright's views about population genetics and evolution are so fundamental and so comprehensive that every serious student must examine these books firsthand. . . . Publication of this treatise is a major event in evolutionary biology."-Daniel L. Hartl, BioScience

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226910413
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	06/15/1984
Series:	Variability Series , #4
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	590
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Species and Subspecies
2. Effective Sizes of Local Populations
3. Genetic Variability in Natural Populations: Methods
4. Chromosome Polymorphisms
5. Deleterious Genes in Natural Populations
6. Conspicuous Polymorphisms
7. Biochemical Polymorphisms
8. Quantitative Variability in Nature
9. Variability within Human Population
10. Racial Differentiation in Mankind
11. Speciation
12. The Higher Categories
13. General Conclusions
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index