What Determines the Rate of Evolution?
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 110 (973) , 331-338
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283071
Abstract
A new type of genetic load, the lag load, is defined; it measures the extent to which a population is lagging behind the contemporary environment. An expression is obtained for the rate of evolution of a haploid sexual population as a function of the lag load, population size, per locus mutation rate and selective advantage per favorable mutation.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- What Determines the Rate of Evolution?The American Naturalist, 1976