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Darwin-L Message Log 1:158 (September 1993)
Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences
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<1:158>From TREMONT%UCSFVM.BITNET@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU Thu Sep 16 20:04:52 1993 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 17:58:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Elihu M. Gerson" <TREMONT%UCSFVM.BITNET@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU> Subject: Evolution as allele frequencies To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu The implication of Junger's question was, I think, that Darwin was able to develop a pretty good theory of evolution without any notion of allele frequencies, and hence, that allele frequences are not very important to understanding evolution. Certainly this seems very plausible if one thinks of evolution as involving adaptation and/or speciation. Have the population geneticists given us a good definition or example of either phenomenon in population genetics terms yet? Or are we still relying on "isolation mechanisms" which never actually appear in the equations? Elihu M. Gerson Tremont Research Institute 458 29 Street San Francisco, CA 94131 415-285-7837 tremont@ucsfvm.ucsf.edu
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