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Genetics of the evolutionary process

The world's foremost geneticist surveys the major developments in what is emerging as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution.
Print Book, English, 1970 [i.e. 1971]
Columbia University Press, New York, 1970 [i.e. 1971]
ix, 505 pages illustrations 25 cm
9780231028370, 9780231083065, 0231028377, 0231083068
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The unity and diversity of life
Genetic continuity and change
Mutation and genetic variability
Normalizing natural selection
Balancing selection and chromosomal polymorphisms
Balancing selection and genetic load
Directional selection
Random drift and founder principle
Populations, races, and subspecies
Reproductive isolation
Patterns of species formation
Patterns of evolution