Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Publications of R. C. Lewontin
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Historical foundations and perspectives
- Part II Genotypes to phenotypes: new genetic and bioinformatic advances
- Part III Phenotypes to fitness: genetics and ecology of populations
- 7 Density-dependent selection
- 8 Nonsynonymous polymorphisms and frequency-dependent selection
- 9 Why k = 4Nus is silly
- 10 Inferences about the structure and history of populations: coalescents and intraspecific phylogeography
- 11 The population genetics of life-history evolution
- 12 Gene–environment complexities: what is interesting to measure and to model?
- 13 Genus–specific diversification of mating types
- Part IV Genes, organisms, and environment: evolutionary case studies
- Part V Applied population biology: biodiversity and food, disease, and health
- Index
9 - Why k = 4Nus is silly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Publications of R. C. Lewontin
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Historical foundations and perspectives
- Part II Genotypes to phenotypes: new genetic and bioinformatic advances
- Part III Phenotypes to fitness: genetics and ecology of populations
- 7 Density-dependent selection
- 8 Nonsynonymous polymorphisms and frequency-dependent selection
- 9 Why k = 4Nus is silly
- 10 Inferences about the structure and history of populations: coalescents and intraspecific phylogeography
- 11 The population genetics of life-history evolution
- 12 Gene–environment complexities: what is interesting to measure and to model?
- 13 Genus–specific diversification of mating types
- Part IV Genes, organisms, and environment: evolutionary case studies
- Part V Applied population biology: biodiversity and food, disease, and health
- Index
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- The Evolution of Population Biology , pp. 178 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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