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The remarkable discreteness of being.

Abstract

Life is a discrete, stochastic phenomenon: for a biological organism, the time of the two most important events of its life (reproduction and death) is random and these events change the number of individuals of the species by single units. These facts can have surprising, counterintuitive consequences. I review here three examples where these facts play, or could play, important roles: the spatial distribution of species, the structuring of biodiversity and the (Darwinian) evolution of altruistic behaviour.

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Year: 2014 PMID： 24736158 DOI： 10.1007/s12038-013-9350-7

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biosci ISSN： 0250-5991 Impact factor: 1.826

32 in total

The remarkable discreteness of being.

1. On the probability of fixation of mutant genes in a population.

2. Theory of neutral clustering for growing populations.

Review 3. Five rules for the evolution of cooperation.

Review 4. The fixation probability of beneficial mutations.

Review 5. Review. Sympatric, parapatric or allopatric: the most important way to classify speciation?

6. Alternative to the diffusion equation in population genetics.

7. Selection and covariance.

8. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.

9. The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I.

10. Selection for altruism through random drift in variable size populations.

Review 1. An ensemble approach to the evolution of complex systems.