Populational heritability: Extending Punnett Square concepts to evolution at the metapopulation level

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-17

  Griesemer, James R ^a   Wade, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Levels of selection; Metapopulations; Populational heritability; Punnett Squares; Shifting balance theory; Units of inheritance

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HERITABILITY; METAPOPULATION;

EID: 0034059222     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006501313374     Document Type: Article

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