English

Rate of Adaptive Evolution under Blending Inheritance

Populations and Evolution 2021-08-03 v5

Abstract

In a population of size N, adaptive evolution is 2N times faster under Mendelian inheritance than the rate implied by Victorian theories of heredity and evolution.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.00374,
  title  = {Rate of Adaptive Evolution under Blending Inheritance},
  author = {Alan R. Rogers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00374},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

4 pages, no figures; relevant to the history of biology

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