Probably the Most Celebrated Argument in Evolutionary Biology
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Notes: "Probably the most celebrated argument in evolutionary biology"—Morton's Medical Bibliography, no. 253.
"The first coherent general algebraic analysis of Mendelian population behavior. The work contains Fisher’s rigorous development of his fundamental theorem of natural selection—the rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time... Along with Wright and Haldane, Fisher established mathematical population genetics."
Uncommon in the first edition. xiv, 272 pages. With two color plates of butterflies.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. With the pencilled ownership signature of M. Ramsay along with a date stamp, 31 May 1930.
Publication: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1930.
Item No: #307272
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