Genetic Revolutions in Relation to Speciation Phenomena: The Founding of New Populations

@article{Carson1984GeneticRI,
  title={Genetic Revolutions in Relation to Speciation Phenomena: The Founding of New Populations},
  author={Hampton L. Carson and Alan R. Templeton},
  journal={Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics},
  year={1984},
  volume={15},
  pages={97-131}
}
  • H. CarsonA. Templeton
  • Published 1 November 1984
  • Biology
  • Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
As a dynamic process of genetic change, evolution manifests itself in two ways: It produces adaptive characters, and it produces species. To recognize that evolution has occurred by studying these products does not satisfy interested population geneticists. They see their science as providing an opportunity to contribute information that permits us to describe how the process of descent with genetic change occurs in populations of sexually reproducing, crossfertilizing organisms. 
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