A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection

A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection is the title of a series of scientific papers by the British population geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, published between 1924 and 1934. Haldane outlines the first mathematical models for many cases of evolution due to selection, an important concept in the modern synthesis of Darwin's theory with Mendelian genetics.

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The papers were published in ten parts over ten years in three different journals.

Part Year Subtitle (if applicable) Reference External links
I 1924 - Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:19-41 Evolution - Classic texts

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II 1924 The influence of partial self-fertilisation, inbreeding, assortative mating and selective fertilisation on the composition of Mendelian populations and on natural selection Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Biological Sciences 1:158-163 Wiley Interscience website
III 1926 - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:363-372 CJO website
IV 1927 - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:607-615 CJO website
V 1927 Selection and mutation Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:838-844 CJO website
VI 1930 Isolation Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26:220-230 CJO website
VII 1931 Selection intensity as a function of mortality rate Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:131-136 CJO website
VIII 1932 Metastable populations Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:137-142 CJO website
IX 1932 Rapid selection Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 28:244-248 CJO website
X 1934 Some theorems on artificial selection Genetics 19:412-429 Genetics website