Equation 6 · Part 4 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
A basic case illustrates the kind of prediction this apparatus makes possible. For a single locus with two alleles under simple directional selection with selection coefficient s favoring an allele at frequency p , one classical discrete-generation recursion is . This is a deliberately simplified model — haploid, one locus, constant s , no drift, no linkage — and real populations violate several of its assumptions routinely. Its value is not as a literal forecast of any specific population but as a baseline against which departures (frequency-dependent selection, epistasis, drift-dominated dynamics in small populations) can be identified and measured.
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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