doi: 10.1016/0040-5809(92)90019-p.
An optimizing principle of natural selection in evolutionary population genetics
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An optimizing principle of natural selection in evolutionary population genetics
Theor Popul Biol.
1992 Dec.
Abstract
This paper brings together two themes in evolutionary population genetics theory. The first concerns Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection: a recent interpretation of this theorem claims that it is an exact result, relating to the so-called "partial" increase in mean fitness. The second theme concerns the desire to find an optimality principle in genetic evolution. Such a principle is found here: of all gene frequency changes which lead to the same partial increase in mean fitness as the natural selection gene frequency changes, the natural selection values minimize a generalized distance measure between parent and daughter generation gene frequency values.
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