%0 Journal Article %1 haldane1957natural %A Haldane, J. B. S. %D 1957 %J Journal of Genetics %K cost_of_selection cost_of_substitution genetic_load population_genetics selective_sweep %N 3 %P 511 %R 10.1007/BF02984069 %T The cost of natural selection %U https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984069 %V 55 %X Unless selection is very intense, the number of deaths needed to secure the substitution, by natural selection, of one gene for another at a locus, is independent of the intensity of selection. It is often about 30 times the number of organisms in a generation. It is suggested that, in horotelic evolution, the mean time taken for each gene substitution is . about 300 generations. This accords with the observed slowness of evolution.

@article{haldane1957natural, abstract = {Unless selection is very intense, the number of deaths needed to secure the substitution, by natural selection, of one gene for another at a locus, is independent of the intensity of selection. It is often about 30 times the number of organisms in a generation. It is suggested that, in horotelic evolution, the mean time taken for each gene substitution is . about 300 generations. This accords with the observed slowness of evolution.}, added-at = {2018-04-06T21:54:03.000+0200}, author = {Haldane, J. B. S.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c6d7fd3e50119e29ed6b9d4f1736fd75/peter.ralph}, day = 01, doi = {10.1007/BF02984069}, interhash = {22017a5e735731bc0916c3a27d85763a}, intrahash = {c6d7fd3e50119e29ed6b9d4f1736fd75}, issn = {0022-1333}, journal = {Journal of Genetics}, keywords = {cost_of_selection cost_of_substitution genetic_load population_genetics selective_sweep}, month = dec, number = 3, pages = 511, timestamp = {2020-06-26T06:51:44.000+0200}, title = {The cost of natural selection}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984069}, volume = 55, year = 1957 }