Population Genetics: A Concise Guide

This concise introduction offers students and researchers an overview of the discipline that connects genetics and evolution. Addressing the theories behind population genetics and relevant empirical evidence, John Gillespie discusses genetic drift, natural selection, nonrandom mating, quantitative genetics, and the evolutionary advantage of sex. First published to wide acclaim in 1998, this brilliant primer has been updated to include new sections on molecular evolution, genetic drift, genetic load, the stationary distribution, and two-locus dynamics. This book is indispensable for students working in a laboratory setting or studying free-ranging populations.

• Molecular Population Genetics
• Principles of Population Genetics
• An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory
• Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits
• Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (4th Edition)
• Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution
• An Introduction to Population Genetics: Theory and Applications
• Evolution
• The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics
• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past