The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Fisher, R. A. (1930). The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Clarendon Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1930

DOI

10.5962/bhl.title.27468

Link

https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.27468

Cited from

data_science, economics_finance, mathematics

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6 citations across 6 artifacts.

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Primes

• Anti-Coordination Game
  • and Fisher's sex-ratio argument — the rarer sex has higher per-individual reproductive value, so 50/50 is stable — is anti-coordination on offspring sex.

    This sourceStates the sex-ratio argument: the rarer sex has higher per-individual reproductive value, so a 1:1 ratio is the stable (anti-coordination) equilibrium.

• Evolutionarily Stable Strategy
  • Biology — foraging strategies, hawk–dove conflict, sex ratios (Fisher's 1:1 result is an ESS), parental care, and virulence levels in pathogens.

    This sourceGives the frequency-dependent argument that the 1:1 sex ratio is stable — a pre-ESS instance of an evolutionarily stable strategy.

• Shortcut Learning
  • In biological evolution it appears as runaway sexual selection on a display trait that originated as an honest fitness signal and persisted after the correlation decayed.

    This sourceIntroduces the runaway sexual-selection process by which a display trait, once correlated with fitness, is selected on the correlate and can persist after the honest-signal correlation decays.

• Variance Bounds Selection Response
  • Fisher's fundamental theorem is the same identity for fitness itself — the rate of increase of mean fitness equals the additive genetic variance in fitness — so a population at a fitness optimum, having exhausted its fitness variance, stops adapting not because selection weakened but because its fuel ran out.

Domain-specific

• Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
  • R. A. Fisher formulated the theorem in 1930 as a population-genetic analogue of the second law of thermodynamics, intended to describe the pace at which natural selection improves a population's adaptation to its environment
• Fisher's Principle (Sex-Ratio Equilibrium)
  • The equilibrium at which neither parental strategy can invade the other is cost-weighted 1:1: if producing one sex costs twice as much as the other in parental investment, the numerically cheaper sex will be twice as common at equilibrium

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