Sergey Gavrilets on the two fitness landscapes
Sewall Wright’s metaphor of the “fitness landscape” is fundamental in the way many biologists think about adaptation. The idea of a population “climbing” tow...
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Sewall Wright and migration
DavidB at Gene Expression continues his wonderful series on Sewall Wright with a detailed post on the population genetics of migration.
Heritability review
Peter Visscher and colleagues present a long review paper on the concept and use of heritability in the current Nature Reviews Genetics.
Sewall Wright and the factors of evolution
Last year around this time, I noted that I happened to be reading Sewall Wright during a TV episode that mentioned Sewall Wright. It's not so unusual for me...
Sewall Wright on Numb3rs
Last year, the show had several anthro-related episodes, but this year it has been mostly network theory and the like. Until last night, when Sewall Wright ...
Criticizing the genetic variance-covariance matrix
A subset of evolutionary theorists are specifically concerned with how the evolution of multiple characters of organisms are linked to each other by genetic...
Why are hybrids usually bad?
Two hypotheses, discussed by Burke and Arnold (2001):
Epistasis and evolution
Razib at Gene Expression has a very informative post referring to the edited volume Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process (Wolf et al. 2000). I'm posting a...
Conditional response, alternative strategies, and female orgasm
I'm trying to resist becoming a hotbed of female orgasm blogging, but I just heard a promo for the story on the local news, so it seems impossible to avoid....