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Some Relationships between Density-Independent Selection and Density-Dependent Population Growth

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The theory of density-independent selection is that part of the modern theory of natural selection with the most distinguished heritage. Thus, any theoretical treatment which is in the classical tradition is identified today by what it is not; it is not a theory about density-dependent selection. The latter theory is quite young, the analytical development starting with Anderson (1971), Roughgarden (1971), and Charlesworth (1971). Thus, we have a “traditionalist-modernist” characterization, which in some disciplines could represent a valid comparison between competing ideas. However, the field of population biology is different. Here, many theories can be simultaneously “true.” To be specific, both density-dependent selection and density-independent selection could be true not only when considering different species, but even when one considers the genetic variance as this may be expressed over different loci within the same local population of one species, and the two modes of selection may vary in importance from one local population to another.

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    Timothy Prout

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    Bruce Wallace

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Prout, T. (1980). Some Relationships between Density-Independent Selection and Density-Dependent Population Growth. In: Hecht, M.K., Steere, W.C., Wallace, B. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6962-6_1

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