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Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy / by Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-2018

Table of Contents: “…Consanguinity, inbreeding, and observed genetic drift in the Parma Valley --…”
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Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy / by Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-2018

Table of Contents: “…Consanguinity, inbreeding, and observed genetic drift in the Parma Valley --…”
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Structural and evolutionary genomics : natural selection in genome evolution by Bernardi, Giorgio

Table of Contents: “…Natural selection and genetic drift in genome evolution : the neo-selectionist model.…”
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Human Population Genetics and Genomics by Templeton, Alan Robert

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Human Population Genetics by Relethford, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Mutational History and Anthropological Questions -- IV. Summary -- 5 GENETIC DRIFT -- I. What is Genetic Drift? -- II. Genetic Drift and Population Size -- III. …”
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Evolution : making sense of life by Zimmer, Carl, 1966-

Agent-based modeling : the Santa Fe Institute artificial stock market model revisited by Ehrentreich, Norman

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Introduction; The Rationale for Agent-Based Modeling; The Concept of Minimal Rationality; Learning in Economics; Replicating the Stylized Facts of Financial Markets; The Original Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market; A Suggested Modification to the SFI-ASM; An Analysis of Wealth Levels; Selection, Genetic Drift, and Technical Trading; Summary and Future Research; Appendix; Back Matter.…”
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Ecological Genetics. by Merrell, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 The Nature of Ecological Genetics; Chapter 2 Adaptation; Chapter 3 Biological Variation; Chapter 4 Mutation; Chapter 5 Natural Selection; Chapter 6 Balanced Polymorphism; Chapter 7 Polymorphism and Population Dynamics; Chapter 8 Genetic Loads; Chapter 9 Chromosomal Polymorphism; Chapter 10 Random Genetic Drift; Chapter 11 Migration and Gene Flow; Chapter 12 The Origin of Races; Chapter 13 Neutralist vs. …”
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Forest genetics by White, Timothy L., 1951-

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Animal domestication and behavior / Animal domestication and behaviour by Price, Edward O.

Table of Contents: “…-- Domestication Defined -- Approaches to the Study of Domestication -- Pre-adaptations for Domestication -- Genetic Mechanisms Influencing Domestication -- Inbreeding -- Genetic Drift -- Artificial Selection -- Natural Selection in Captivity -- Relaxation of Natural Selection -- Variation Under Domestication -- Genetic Variability and Behavior -- Morphological and Physiological Traits -- Adaptation to the Biological Environment -- Feeding and Drinking -- Predation, Infectious Diseases and Parasites -- Interactions with Humans -- Social Environment -- Adaptation to the Physical Environment -- Climate and Shelter -- Use of Space -- Behavioral Development, Feralization and Animal Welfare -- Behavioral Development in Captive Animals -- Reintroductions and Feralization -- Welfare and Ethics.…”
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An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology. by Stoneking, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Non-Random MatingSmall Population Size; Small Populations: Random Fluctuations in Allele Frequencies; Small Population Size: Loss of Genetic Variation; Small Population Size: Increase in Inbreeding; Example of Small Population Size: Tristan da Cunha; Mutation; Equilibrium between Genetic Drift and Mutation; Rate of Neutral Evolution; Migration; Migration and Genetic Drift; Wahlunds Effect; Selection; Mutation-Selection Balance; Balancing Selection; Disruptive Selection; Selection: Summary; Evolutionary Forces: Summary; 6 Molecular Evolution.…”
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Forward-time population genetics simulations : methods, implementation, and applications. by Peng, Bo, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…FORWARD-TIME POPULATION GENETICS SIMULATIONS: Methods, Implementation, and Applications; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF EXAMPLES; 1 BASIC CONCEPTS AND MODELS; 1.1 Biological and Genetic Concepts; 1.1.1 Genome and Chromosomes; 1.1.2 Genes, Markers, Loci, and Alleles; 1.1.3 Recombination and Linkage; 1.1.4 Sex Chromosomes; 1.1.5 Mutation and Mutation Models; 1.2 Population and Evolutionary Genetics; 1.2.1 Population Variation and Mutation; 1.2.2 The Wright-Fisher Model and Random Mating; 1.2.3 The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium; 1.2.4 Genetic Drift and Effective Population Size.…”
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Phylogeography : concepts, intraspecific patterns, and speciation processes

Table of Contents: “…Hiscock -- Gene flow, genetic drift, and geographic variation of the Ainu : an assessment based on nonmetric cranial traits / Tsunehiko Hanihara -- Suture zones and phylogeographic concordance : are they the same and how should we test for their existence? …”
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Not by Design : Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker. by Reiss, John O., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Natural Selection and Genetic Drift.…”
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Not by Design : Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker. by Reiss, John O., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Natural Selection and Genetic Drift.…”
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50 biology ideas you really need to know / Fifty biology ideas you really need to know by Chamary, J. V.

Table of Contents: “…Natural selection -- 45. Genetic drift -- 46. The selfish gene -- 47. Cooperation -- 48. …”
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The freezing of mammalian embryos.

Table of Contents: “…Genetic stability in cellular systems in the frozen stateDiscussion; Long-term storage of frozen mouse embryos under increased background irradiation; Discussion; Genetic drift: the problem and its possible solution by frozen-embryo storage; Discussion; A mouse geneticist's impatient waiting for the arrival of embryo-freezing techniques; Discussion; Final general discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index.…”
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Probability models for DNA sequence evolution by Durrett, Richard, 1951-

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Essential Medical Genetics by Tobias, Edward S.

Table of Contents: “…Autosomal dominant inheritance with sex limitation -- Pseudodominant inheritance -- X-linked dominant inheritance with male lethality -- Mosaicism -- Modifier genes and digenic inheritance -- Uniparental disomy -- Imprinting disorders -- Non-mendelian inheritance -- Multifactorial disorders -- Mitochondrial disorders -- Somatic cell genetic disorders -- Medical genetics in populations -- Selection for single-gene disorders -- Founder effect and genetic drift for single-gene disorders -- Altered mutation rate for single-gene disorders -- Linkage analysis and the International HapMap Project…”
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Genomes, Evolution, and Culture Past, Present, and Future of Humankind. by Herrera, Rene J.

Table of Contents: “…Review questions and exercises -- References -- Chapter 3: Population structure -- DNA-based marker systems -- SNPs, STRs, and Indels as DNA markers -- SNPs -- STRs -- Indels -- Population genetic tools for analyzing population structure -- Forces affecting population dynamics, structure, and evolution -- Selection -- Genetic drift -- Migration and founder effect -- Isolation and inbreeding -- Nonrandom mating -- Bottlenecks -- Admixture -- Applications of population genetics -- Introduction -- Medicine -- Pharmacogenetics -- DNA fingerprinting -- From populations to races and species…”
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Excel Simulations by Verschuuren, G. M. N. (Geert M. N.)

Table of Contents: “…Hardy-Weinberg Law; 25. Genetic Drift; 26. Lethal Homozygote.…”
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Chance in evolution

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Evolutionary Algorithms : an Overview. by Petrowski, Alain

Table of Contents: “…Selection pressure; 1.3.2. Genetic drift; 1.3.3. Proportional selection; 1.3.4. …”
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Basics in human evolution

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Basics in Human Evolution; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I -- Positioning Human Evolution; Chapter 1 -- Basic Evolutionary Theory; SYNOPSIS; INTRODUCTION; THE ORIGIN OF GENETIC VARIATION; VARIATION WITHIN POPULATIONS; GENETIC DRIFT; NATURAL SELECTION; LEVELS OF SELECTION; SPECIATION; FROM MICROEVOLUTION TO MACROEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY TODAY; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 -- Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design; SYNOPSIS; INTRODUCTION; A SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM; INTELLIGENT DESIGN; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Part II -- Primates.…”
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The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses.

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Natural selection, genetic drift, and the genetics of adaptation3.3.1 Effective population sizes in viral evolution; 3.3.2 Transmission bottlenecks; 3.3.3 The dynamics of allele fixation: estimating selection coefficients; 3.3.4 The importance of hitch-hiking; 3.3.5 Patterns of synonymous and nonsynonymous evolution; 3.3.6 Natural selection and transmission mode; 3.3.7 Escape from intrinsic immunity; 3.3.8 Strictly neutral evolution in RNA viruses?…”
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Encyclopedia of theoretical ecology

Table of Contents: “…Moorcroft -- Mutation, selection, and genetic drift / Brian Charlesworth -- Networks, Ecological / Anna Eklöf, Stefano Allesina -- Neutral community ecology / Stephen P. …”
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Global optimization methods in geophysical inversion by Sen, Mrinal K.

Table of Contents: “…5.6 Multimodal fitness functions, genetic drift, GA with sharing, and repeat (parallel) GA -- 5.7 Uncertainty estimates -- 5.8 Evolutionary programming -- a variant of GA -- 5.9 Summary -- 6 Other stochastic optimization methods -- 6.1 The neighborhood algorithm (NA) -- 6.1.1 Voronoi diagrams -- 6.1.2 Voronoi diagrams in SA and GA -- 6.1.3 Neighborhood sampling algorithm -- 6.2 Particle swarm optimization (PSO) -- 6.3 Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) -- 7 Geophysical applications of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms -- 7.1 1D seismic waveform inversion -- 7.1.1 Application of heat bath SA -- 7.1.2 Application of GAs -- 7.1.3 Real-data examples -- 7.1.4 Hybrid GA/LI inversion using different measures of fitness -- 7.1.5 Hybrid VFSA inversion using different strategies -- 7.2 Prestack migration velocity estimation -- 7.2.1 1D earth structure -- 7.2.2 2D earth structure -- 7.2.3 Multiple and simultaneous VFSA for imaging -- 7.3 Inversion of resistivity sounding data for 1D earth models -- 7.3.1 Exact parameterization -- 7.3.2 Overparameterization with smoothing -- 7.4 Inversion of resistivity profiling data for 2D earth models -- 7.4.1 Inversion of synthetic data -- 7.4.2 Inversion of field data -- 7.5 Inversion of magnetotelluric sounding data for 1D earth models -- 7.6 Stochastic reservoir modeling -- 7.7 Seismic deconvolution by mean field annealing (MFA) and Hopfield network -- 7.7.1 Synthetic example -- 7.7.2 Real-data example -- 7.8 Joint inversion -- 7.8.1 Joint travel time and gravity inversion -- 7.8.2 Time-lapse (4D) seismic and well production joint inversion -- 8 Uncertainty estimation -- 8.1 Methods of numerical integration -- 8.1.1 Grid search or enumeration -- 8.1.2 Monte Carlo integration -- 8.1.3 Importance sampling -- 8.1.4 Multiple MAP estimation -- 8.2 Simulated annealing: the Gibbs sampler.…”
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Biometrical genetics : analysis of quanitative variation by Roy, Darbeshwar

Table of Contents: “…Effective population size -- 19.7.2. Random genetic drift in natural populations -- 19.8. The Founder Principle -- 19.9. …”
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