A reader emailed me to ask what I thought would be a good way to better understand some of the more technical posts I put up. First, two course notes which I've found useful as personal references: - ...

Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

The total duration of the videos in this section is 02:11:48. The slides for the Introduction to Workshop and Basics of Statistical Genetics are available as a PDF file. The lectures for this day are ...

Part One. The basics of population genetics -- Part Two. Complex genetic systems -- Part Three. Special topics in evolution -- Part Four. Evolutionary ecology of single populations -- Part Five.

James Crow, an influential population geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of congestive heart failure last Wednesday at the age of 95, the New York Times reported. A leader in the ...

I present analytical predictions for the equilibrium inbreeding load expected in a population under mutation, selection, and a regular mating system for any population size and for any magnitude and ...