Population genetics
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Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow. It also takes into account the factors of population subdivision and population structure. It attempts to explain such phenomena as adaptation and speciation.
Population genetics was a vital ingredient in the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Its primary founders were Sewall Wright, J. B. S. Haldane and R. A. Fisher, who also laid the foundations for the related discipline of quantitative genetics.
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See also
- Coalescent theory
- Dual inheritance theory
- Ecological genetics
- Evolutionarily Significant Unit
- Ewens's sampling formula
- Fitness landscape
- Founder effect
- Genetic diversity
- Genetic drift
- Genetic erosion
- Genetic hitchhiking
- Genetic pollution
- Gene pool
- Genotype-phenotype distinction
- Habitat fragmentation
- Haldane's dilemma
- Hardy-Weinberg principle
- Hill-Robertson effect
- Linkage disequilibrium
- Microevolution
- Molecular evolution
- Muller's ratchet
- Mutational meltdown
- Neutral theory of molecular evolution
- Population bottleneck
- Quantitative genetics
- Reproductive compensation
- Selection
- Selective sweep
- Small population size
- Viral quasispecies
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