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Natural Selection
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Darwinian selection
, Selection, Natural
National Institutes of Health
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Biological Evolution
Genetic Selection
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Positive Natural Selection in the Human Lineage
P. Sabeti
,
S. Schaffner
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+7 authors
E. Lander
Science
2006
Corpus ID: 10809290
Positive natural selection is the force that drives the increase in prevalence of advantageous traits, and it has played a…
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Review
2005
Review
2005
Molecular signatures of natural selection.
R. Nielsen
Annual review of genetics
2005
Corpus ID: 3063754
There is an increasing interest in detecting genes, or genomic regions, that have been targeted by natural selection. The…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans
D. Mishmar
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E. Ruiz-Pesini
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+10 authors
D. Wallace
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
2002
Corpus ID: 27105691
Human mtDNA shows striking regional variation, traditionally attributed to genetic drift. However, it is not easy to account for…
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Genetic algorithms: principles of natural selection applied to computation.
S. Forrest
Science
1993
Corpus ID: 35175195
A genetic algorithm is a form of evolution that occurs on a computer. Genetic algorithms are a search method that can be used for…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism.
F. Tajima
Genetics
1989
Corpus ID: 6658427
The relationship between the two estimates of genetic variation at the DNA level, namely the number of segregating sites and the…
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Review
1983
Review
1983
THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON CORRELATED CHARACTERS
R. Lande
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S. J. Arnold
Evolution; international journal of organic…
1983
Corpus ID: 36544045
Natural selection acts on phenotypes, regardless of their genetic basis, and produces immediate phenotypic effects within a…
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
NATURAL SELECTION AND RANDOM GENETIC DRIFT IN PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION
R. Lande
Evolution; international journal of organic…
1976
Corpus ID: 13398608
In discussions of the major features of evolution, Simpson (1953) applied population genetic models to the interpretation of the…
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Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Mutation selection and the natural history of cancer
J. Cairns
Nature
1975
Corpus ID: 4216433
Survival of the rapidly renewing tissues of long-lived animals like man requires that they be protected against the natural…
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Natural Selection of Parental Ability to Vary the Sex Ratio of Offspring
R. Trivers
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D. Willard
Science
1973
Corpus ID: 29326420
Theory and data suggest that a male in good condition at the end of the period of parental investment is expected to outreproduce…
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
R. Trivers
The Quarterly Review of Biology
1971
Corpus ID: 19027999
A model is presented to account for the natural selection of what is termed reciprocally altruistic behavior. The model shows how…
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