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... population genetics . This law gave a mathemati- cal treatment of gene equilibrium in human populations.3 It implied , among other things , that the elimination of a trait from a population is an extraordinarily long and complex process ...
... population genetics . This law gave a mathemati- cal treatment of gene equilibrium in human populations.3 It implied , among other things , that the elimination of a trait from a population is an extraordinarily long and complex process ...
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... genetics , much of which was developed through the use of human populations as examples . 51 Population genetics involved the application of rigorous mathematical and analytical methods to working out the conse- quences of Mendelian ...
... genetics , much of which was developed through the use of human populations as examples . 51 Population genetics involved the application of rigorous mathematical and analytical methods to working out the conse- quences of Mendelian ...
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... genes in populations , and the inheritance of " biometrical " or " quantitative " traits . The groundwork of population genetics had been established in 1908 by Hardy and Weinberg , but for nearly a decade no one appreciated the ...
... genes in populations , and the inheritance of " biometrical " or " quantitative " traits . The groundwork of population genetics had been established in 1908 by Hardy and Weinberg , but for nearly a decade no one appreciated the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
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Science and Pseudoscience | 54 |
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