Pleiotropy, Natural Selection, and the Evolution of Senescence

1957/12/01 by George C. Williams · 52 citations
Social Sciences · Mathematics · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

paper · doi:10.2307/2406060

Abstract

A new individual entering a population may be said to have a reproductive probability distribution. The reproductive probability is zero from zygote to reproductive maturity. Later, perhaps shortly...

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