A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection. Part VII. Selection intensity as a function of mortality rate

1 January 1931

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vol. 27 (1) , 131-136
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100009427

Abstract

The assumption is often made that when competition is extremely intense at any stage in a life cycle, natural selection is bound to be intense also. This assumption will be examined quantitatively and it will be shown that the intensity of selection may diminish and become negative at high rates of elimination, while at its best its increase is extremely slow.

Keywords

FUNCTION
EXAMINED QUANTITATIVELY
ARTIFICIAL SELECTION
HIGH RATES
EXTREMELY INTENSE
MATHEMATICAL THEORY
NATURAL SELECTION
PART VII
EXTREMELY SLOW

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The Importance of Cataclasms in Evolution*
Nature, 1930