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

“He was the real organizer of population genetics in the United States,” Will Provine, a historian of biology at Cornell University, told the Times. Crow’s 1970 landmark textbook, "An Introduction to ...

Population genomics refers to the large-scale study of genetic variation both within and between populations of organisms, ...

Genetic variation describes naturally occurring genetic differences among individuals of the same species. This variation permits flexibility and survival of a population in the face of changing ...

Thinking about population genetics often brings to mind visions of animals in the wild being swept along by the tide of natural catastrophes, soil depletion, or predation. However, over the past ...