A brief history of evolutionary thinking

Quantitative / Additive inheritance

   Chart: Percentage of genome shared by close relatives

Population genetics / Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

   Figure: Percentage of homozygous progeny from repeated matings with different degrees of inbreeding. Sewall Wright. 1921. Systems of mating. Genetics 6:111-178.

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The New Synthesis / Speciation

Species concepts / Patterns of geographic variation

Island biogeography: MacArthur-Wilson equilibrium theory

A few links relevant to Mass extinctions

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