| Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 1: Genetic and Biometric Foundations Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wright, Sewall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226910385 ISBN-13: 9780226910383 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $61.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1984 Annotation: Sewall Wright opens this first volume of his monumental Evolution and the Genetics of Populations with a brief account of the ideas on the origin and evolution of the species that had been proposed up to the rediscovery of the Mendelian mechanism in 1900. He then takes up modes of inheritance, types of reproductive cycles, the nature of the gene, and the relation of genes to the usually remote characters that are the objects of selection. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics |
| Dewey: 575.1 |
| LCCN: 67025533 |
| Series: Genetic & Biometric Foundations |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.04" W x 9.07" (1.20 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 |
