What percent of genetic load is due to lethal alleles?
Unless you have this information for your species use the default value (50.0). If you do not understand what a lethal equivalent is, press F1 (this will show you what the question is asking for). Do you want EV (reproduction) to be concordant with EV (survival)? EV is the variation in the probabilities of reproduction and survival that occur because of environmental variation, e.g., the variation in reproduction caused by year-to-year changes in weather, food availability, parasites, etc. Enter Yes if you feel that good years for reproduction are also good years for survival, and vice versa, for your critter. How many types of catastrophes do you want to model? For the homework #1 start with only 1. For your term project you should spend some time thinking about this. What sorts of factors effecting your population might be modeled as catastrophes? They should be major events that occur once in a while, not minor factors that occur regularly. Monogamous (M), Polygynous (P), or Hermaph
