Explore how variation maintained in inheritance influences adaptation and challenges the blending model of inheritance. The figure to the left illustrates the decay in the variance of the trait value ...

The history of science often emphasizes the great discoveries, but neglects to mention that many aspects of these discoveries were frequently known in advance. Such was the case for the chromosome ...

The Hardy-Weinberg theorem characterizes the distributions of genotype frequencies in populations that are not evolving, and is thus the fundamental null model for population genetics. Under the ...

In the pantheon of scientists I have known and most admired, I hold high Conrad H. Waddington. His intellectual courage changed the shape of biology. Waddington fundamentally extended the ...