• DOI:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01410.x
Corpus ID: 2081042

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}
}

E. Leigh

Published 2007

Biology, Medicine

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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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.