ArticleGenetics2009
Darwin and genetics.
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- Why we don't want another "Synthesis".Biology direct · 2017Article
- The sources of adaptive variation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Review
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- The Amborella vacuolar processing enzyme family.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Article
- Gene bionetworks involved in the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of altered mate preference: environmental epigenetics and evolutionary biology.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Introductory biology students' conceptual models and explanations of the origin of variation.CBE life sciences education · 2014Article
- Plasticity-mediated persistence in new and changing environments.International journal of evolutionary biology · 2014Review
- Mendelian-mutationism: the forgotten evolutionary synthesis.Journal of the history of biology · 2014Article
- Charles Darwin's mitochondria.Genetics · 2013Article
- Rhizome of life, catastrophes, sequence exchanges, gene creations, and giant viruses: how microbial genomics challenges Darwin.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2012Review
- Ecological genetics of sex ratios in plant populations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2010Article
- Genetics and the causes of evolution: 150 years of progress since Darwin.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2010Article
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Abstract
Darwin's theory of natural selection lacked an adequate account of inheritance, making it logically incomplete. We review the interaction between evolution and genetics, showing how, unlike Mendel, Darwin's lack of a model of the mechanism of inheritance left him unable to interpret his own data that showed Mendelian ratios, even though he shared with Mendel a more mathematical and probabilistic outlook than most biologists of his time. Darwin's own "pangenesis" model provided a mechanism for generating ample variability on which selection could act. It involved, however, the inheritance of characters acquired during an organism's life, which Darwin himself knew could not explain some evolutionary situations. Once the particulate basis of genetics was understood, it was seen to allow variation to be passed intact to new generations, and evolution could then be understood as a process of changes in the frequencies of stable variants. Evolutionary genetics subsequently developed as a central part of biology. Darwinian principles now play a greater role in biology than ever before, which we illustrate with some examples of studies of natural selection that use DNA sequence data and with some recent advances in answering questions first asked by Darwin.
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