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Population Genetics

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Population Genetics.

  • General selection model — A population-genetic recurrence describing allele-frequency change from genotype-specific relative fitnesses.
  • Polygenic adaptation — Evolutionary adaptation produced by coordinated small allele-frequency shifts across many loci affecting a quantitative trait rather than by fixation of one large-effect mutation.
  • Protected Polymorphism — A population-genetic selection condition in which every alternative allele can invade when rare, making allele-loss boundaries unstable and maintaining polymorphism against frequency perturbations in the deterministic model.
  • Selection coefficient — Express a genotype or allele's fitness disadvantage relative to a declared reference in a population-genetic model, linking relative reproductive weighting to predicted frequency change.