Neutral theory: a historical perspective
@article{Leigh2007NeutralTA, title={Neutral theory: a historical perspective}, author={E. Leigh}, journal={Journal of Evolutionary Biology}, year={2007}, volume={20} }
To resolve a panselectionist paradox, the population geneticist Kimura invented a neutral theory, where each gene is equally likely to enter the next generation whatever its allelic type. To learn what could be explained without invoking Darwinian adaptive divergence, Hubbell devised a similar neutral theory for forest ecology, assuming each tree is equally likely to reproduce whatever its species. In both theories, some predictions worked; neither theory proved universally true.
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