The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new mathematical approach to the study of evolution by natural selection. Practically all of contemporary mathematical evolution theory is encompassed by the field of population genetics, which takes the empirical facts of Mendelian genetics as given and infers their evolutionary consequences. The writer has approached the subject from the opposite direction. This thesis takes the occurrence of evolution by natural selection as a given fact, and emphasizes that mere chance could not have produced the highly adapted organisms we see around us within the limitations of time and space to which natural selection has been restricted. It then attempts to infer the properties of a genetic system, and other conditions, which are necessary and sufficient to allow natural selection to have yielded products so different from those which would have been yielded by chance alone.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115312 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Warburton, Frederick. E. |
| Contributors | Naylor, A. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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