Detection of selective advantages of the heterozygotes in man

Boyd, William C.

doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330130105

American J Phys Anthropol

1955

DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330130105

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Detection of selective advantages of the heterozygotes in man

William C. Boyd

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“…In her farsighted article in AJPA on selection and ABO blood groups, Brues (1954) showed that only one-fifth of the phenotype combinations possible actually occurred, an argument for dynamically balanced selection factors. In the following year Boyd (1955) wrestled with the detection of selective advantages of the heterozygotes in human genetic traits.…”

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The development of genetics and population studies

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1981

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The contribution of genetics and population studies to physical anthropology as reflected in the pages of our Journal is traced since its establishment in 1918. Major trends include the use of more genetic polymorphisms, the search for natural selection and genetic drift, the unraveling of population structure in a wide variety of ecological niches, and the recognition of the role of culture in human biology. Nonhuman primates have also been explored from the viewpoint of population genetics. Emphasis has been increasingly on process rather than classification.

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1981

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Frequency and maintenance of genetic variability in natural populations of Macaca fascicularis

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Goodman

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Pluralism and Panselectionism

Beatty

1984

PSA. Proc. Bien. Meet. Philos. Sci. Assoc.

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It is certainly not unreasonable to try to account for patterns of variation in nature in terms of evolution by natural selection. But there are more or less “avid” proponents of this way of understanding nature who are, according to critics, more or less reasonable in inverse proportion. Attempts to understand nature in terms of evolution by natural selection can, according to these critics, be pushed too far. Just how far such pursuits can reasonably be pushed is the central problem of this paper.I will discuss this issue in the context of an episode in the history of evolutionary biology that has been labelled by Stephen Gould, “the hardening of the evolutionary synthesis” (Gould 1980, 1982, 1983). In the course of the hardening of the synthesis, evolutionists attributed a greater and greater role to natural selection, and correspondingly less and less a role to alternative evolutionary agents—minimizing in particular the role of so-called “random drift”.

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Detection of selective advantages of the heterozygotes in man

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

The development of genetics and population studies

The development of genetics and population studies

Frequency and maintenance of genetic variability in natural populations of Macaca fascicularis

Pluralism and Panselectionism

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