A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection explained

A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection is the title of a series of scientific papers by the British population geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, published between 1924 and 1934. Haldane outlines the first mathematical models for many cases of evolution due to selection, an important concept in the modern synthesis of Darwin's theory with Mendelian genetics.

Overview

The papers were published in ten parts over ten years in three different journals.

PartYearSubtitle (if applicable)ReferenceExternal links
I1924-Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:19-41Evolution - Classic textsSpringer website
II1924The influence of partial self-fertilisation, inbreeding, assortative mating and selective fertilisation on the composition of Mendelian populations and on natural selectionProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Biological Sciences 1:158-163Wiley Interscience website
III1926-Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:363-372CJO website
IV1927-Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:607-615CJO website
V1927Selection and mutationProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:838-844CJO website
VI1930IsolationProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26:220-230CJO website
VII1931Selection intensity as a function of mortality rateProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:131-136CJO website
VIII1932Metastable populationsProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:137-142CJO website
IX1932Rapid selectionProceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 28:244-248CJO website
X1934Some theorems on artificial selectionGenetics 19:412-429Genetics website