Table of Contents

1 Variability and its measurement 2 Basic selection theory and the maintenance of variation 3 Directional selection and adaptation 4 Migration, mutation and selection 5 The evolutionary effects of finite population size: basic theory 6 Molecular evolution and variation 7 Genetic effects of spatial structure 8 Multiple sites and loci 9 The evolution of breeding systems, sex ratios and life histories 10 Some Topics in Genome Evolution Mathematical and Statistical Appendix

About the Author

Brian and Deborah Charlesworth obtained PhDs in genetics at Cambridge, and have subsequently worked at the Universities of Liverpool, Sussex, Chicago and Edinburgh, and are co-authors of a book about evolution for the general public. Brian is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Deborah is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Both currently work on questions in population genetics, molecular evolution and genome evolution, and also on mating system evolution, including the evolution of sex chromosomes.

Reviews

"The book by Charlesworth and Charlesworth provides an authoritative and accessible review of classical and modern population genetics. It can serve as a text for several graduate level courses and will be an invaluable reference to researchers in all areas of biology." -Montgomery Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley