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.
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