SEWALL WRIGHT AND POPULATION STRUCTURE IN RELATION TO EVOLUTION

Sewall Wright: A Life in Evolution

54 RESONANCE December 1999 Population genetics, the study of how the genetic composition of populations changes over time under the influence of mutation, migration and natural or artificial selection, is one of the few areas in biology that rests upon a thorough and rigorous theoretical foundation. This foundation is itself almost entirely the result of the intellectual labours of three people...

2002 Sewall Wright Award. Linda Partridge.

Sewall Wright on Evolution in Mendelian Populations and the "Shifting Balance".

After the rediscovery of Mendel’s work in 1900, bitter disputes erupted between the first geneticists and the biometricians who studied quantitative traits. How could the discrete genes of the geneticists explain the continuous variation observed by biometricians? And could natural selection shape variation in these genes? Eventually, the two camps came to understand that quantitative variation...

Sewall Wright and Gustave Malécot on Isolation by Distance

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...