D’Alembert’s Direct and Inertial Forces Acting on Populations: The Price Equation and the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
I develop a framework for interpreting the forces that act on any population described by frequencies. The conservation of total frequency, or total probability, shapes the characteristics of force. I begin with Fisher’s fundamental theorem of natural selection. That theorem partitions the total evo...
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MDPI AG
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/10/7087 |