ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
The 'algebra of evolution': the Robertson-Price identity and viability selection for body mass in a wild bird population.
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- Gene flow drives periods of both evolutionary stasis and change in a wild bird population.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Using Landsat Satellite Imagery to Investigate Spatial and Temporal Variation in Life History Traits in a Long-Term Study Population of Superb Fairy-WrensEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Measuring natural selection on the transcriptome.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- The magnitude of selection on growth varies among years and increases under warming conditions in a subarctic seabird.Evolution letters · 2024Article
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- Fifty years of the Price equation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
By the Robertson-Price identity, the change in a quantitative trait owing to selection, is equal to the trait's covariance with relative fitness. In this study, we applied the identity to long-term data on superb fairy-wrens
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