Population Biology of Genes and Molecules

by Naoyuki Takahata

In 1968, geneticist Motoo Kimura proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution, which suggested that evolutionary changes of proteins occur mostly by random fixation of neutral mutations rather than positive Darwinian selection. This theory, which has had an enormous impact on population genetics and evolutionary biology, also stated that much of the protein polymorphism in natural populations represents a transient phase of molecular evolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195208935
• ISBN13: 9780195208931
• Release Date: November 2099
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 370 Pages