Population Genetics
by Kent Holsinger
Publisher: University of Connecticut 2008
Number of pages: 333
Description:
This course is an introduction to the field of population genetics, the branch of evolutionary biology concerned with the genetic structure of populations and how it changes through time. The math you will need is mostly quite simple, some basic algebra and probability theory.
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