Absolute fitness, relative fitness, and utility

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2997-3000

  Orr, H Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Finance; Geometric mean; Mean variance criterion; Natural selection; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; FINANCE; FITNESS; NATURAL SELECTION; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY;

EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 36549087653     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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