Variation, natural selection, and information content - A simulation

Chemistry and Biodiversity

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2458-2472

  Testa, Bernard ^a   Bojarski, Andrzej J ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL;

EVOLUTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 35748959677     PISSN: 16121872     EISSN: 16121880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790200     Document Type: Article

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