What is Darwinian Population Genetics?
Darwinian population genetics, or simply population genetics, is a central feature, if not the central feature, of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or neo-Darwinism. The modern evolutionary synthesis is a combination of Darwin’s theory of the evolution of species by natural selection, Mendel’s theory of genetics as the basis for biological inheritance, and mathematical population genetics. Put together by dozens of scientists throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Darwinian population genetics is our best model of the process that incrementally created all life on Earth, evolution and natural selection. Population genetics is the study of the genetic distribution and change of allele frequency within a given species — basically, which genes are more or less prominent within that species. This distribution and the way it changes can be understood comprehensively through five forces: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, migration and nonrandom mating. Mathematical population genetics
