2 papers
q-bio.PE2011
The rate of multi-step evolution in Moran and Wright-Fisher populations
Stephen R Proulx
Several groups have recently modeled evolutionary transitions from an ancestral allele to a beneficial allele separated by one or more intervening mutants. The beneficial allele ca…
q-bio.PE2005
The Role of Life Cycle and Migration in Selection for Offspring Variance
Max Shpak, Stephen Proulx
For two genotypes that have the same mean number of offspring but differ in the variance in offspring number, natural selection will favor the genotype with lower variance. The con…