BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enzyme, Prokaryote, Richard Lewontin
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Mendelian genetics only tell us about one trait the more challenging problem arises when we want to look at several traits, or even an entire genome. Haldane (1882 1964) british population geneticist: r. a. fisher (1890 1960) british population geneticist. 2: s. wright (1889 1988) american population geneticist. All of them were mathematicians who made significant contributions to evolutionary. There was a major rivalry between fisher and haldane; they really didn"t like each other biology in the study of population genetics. This gave rise to the modern evolutionary synthesis. 1930 1950: theoretical population genetics was initiated by fisher, haldane and wright. Provided the foundations of neo-darwinism and the new synthesis. Showed that continuous variation and darwinian natural selection were entirely consistent with mendel"s laws, which dealt with polymorphic traits. Also demonstrated the evolutionary significance of genetic variation leading to several key questions and development of the field of ecological and evolutionary genetics.
