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A NOTE ON EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE WITH OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS

Author(s) -

William G. Hill

Publication year - 1979

Publication title -

genetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792

H-Index - 246

eISSN - 1943-2631

pISSN - 0016-6731

DOI - 10.1093/genetics/92.1.317

Subject(s) - biology , effective population size , overlapping generations model , population size , population , simple (philosophy) , genetics , mating , small population size , evolutionary biology , statistics , demography , mathematics , genetic variation , ecology , gene , philosophy , macroeconomics , epistemology , sociology , habitat , economics

A simple derivation is given far a formula obtained previously for the effective size of random-mating populations with overlapping generations. The effective papulation size is the same as that for a population with discrete generations having the same variance of lifetime family size and the same number of individuals entering the population per generation.

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