Equation 7 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
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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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