XV.—On Rare Defects in Human Populations with Particular Regard to In-breeding and Isolate Effects
- 1 January 1939
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Vol. 58, 213-232
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600011135
Abstract
In theoretical analyses of the hereditary composition of human populations it is often assumed that crossing occurs at random and that individuals with different hereditary make‐up are equally fertile. This state of things has been called amphimixis. Sometimes such assumptions tally so closely with the actual state of things that it is possible to employ calculations carried out from this point of departure. In other cases processes present in populations cause larger or smaller deviations from amphimixis.Keywords
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