Links

This page holds a collection of resources (software, notes, paper collections, etc.) mostly for my own quick referencing, but some items may be of interest to others.

Population genetics and evolution reading

• Graham Coop's Notes on Population Genetics (pdf)

• Kent Holsinger's Lecture Notes in Population Genetics (pdf)

• Joe Felsenstein's Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics (pdf)

• Bruce Walsh's Lecture Notes in Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics

• Warren Ewens's Mathematical Population Genetics

• John Gillespie's Population Genetics, A Concise Guide

• Sebastien Roch's Stochastic Processes in Evolution and Genetics

• Roberta L. Millstein's History and Philosophy of Biology Resources

Classic Books

"So melancholy a neglect of Darwin's work suggests reflections upon the use of those rare and precious possessions of humanity: great books. It was, we believe, the custom of the late Professor Freeman to warn his students that mastery of one great book was worth any amount of knowledge of many lesser ones. The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. How many biological students of today have read The Origin? The majority know it only from extracts, a singularly ineffective means, for a work of genius does not easily lend itself to the scissors; its unity is too marked. Nothing can really take the place of a first-hand study of the work itself." -- R.A. Fisher and C. S. Stock (1915) --

• Complete works of Charles Darwin

• R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, 1930 (and a nice commentary by A.W.F. Edwards)

• Sewall Wright's Evolution in Mendelian Populations, 1930

• J.B.S. Haldane's The Causes of Evolution, 1932

• Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species, 1937

• Sewall Wright's Evolution and Genetics of Populations, 1968

Interactive simulations and plots

• Diploid selection model (inspired by: driftR, reproduced with very minor modifcations)

(still testing and playing with these, so they may not work)

Some readings on the evolution of sex and recombination

Agrawal 2006 • Otto 2009 • Zeyl & Bell 1997 • Goddard et al. 2005 • Felsenstein 1988 • West et al. & responses (JEB) 1999 • Kouyos et al. 2007 • Peck 1994 • Barton & Charlesworth 1998 • Rice 2002 • Keightley & Otto 2006 • Roze & Barton 2006 • McVean & Charlesworth 2000 • Comeron 2002 • Good et al. 2014