David has finally initiated his series on the major ideas of the great evolutionary biologist Sewall Wright. Check out his post on path analysis.
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David takes a slight detour in this Sewall Wright, series, R. A. Fisher and Epistasis:
My next note on Sewall Wright will cover the exciting subject of the adaptive landscape. As every schoolboy knows, Wright considered epistatic gene interactions very important in determining the 'peaks' of the…
David continues his series on the thinking of the great evolutionary geneticist Sewall Wright. Today's post, Notes on Sewall Wright: Migration. First, the general:
Continuing my series of notes on Sewall Wright's population genetics, I come to the subject of migration. This is important in…
Notes on Sewall Wright: Population Size:
Continuing my series of notes on the work of Sewall Wright, I come to the question of population size. This is important in Wright's formulation of population genetics and his evolutionary theory generally. One of the major differences between Wright and R.…
Notes on Sewall Wright: the Adaptive Landscape:
My series of posts on the work of Sewall Wright is now approaching its (anti?)climax. The next post, on the shifting balance theory, should be the last. The present note deals with a closely related subject. Wright introduced the concept of the '…