Genetic Drift and Neutral Evolution

Dennis Nyberg

Index of Slides : Graphic Version 800x600

  1. GENETIC DRIFT & NEUTRAL THEORY of EVOLUTION
  2. Reading Assignment
  3. Natural Selection view of Evolution
  4. Amounts of Genetic Variation
  5. New Idea
  6. Sampling Variation
  7. Genetic drift
  8. Allele frequency in finite populations
  9. GENETIC DRIFT in populations differing by 2 orders of magnitude Note fixation of both alleles
  10. Experimental Study of Drift
  11. The Neutral Theory
  12. Fixation (of alleles)
  13. Rate of loss of genetic variation in one generation
  14. Genetic Variability Loss over time
  15. Losses and gains of polymorphism
  16. Bottlenecks
  17. Probability of eventual fixation of neutral alleles
  18. GENETIC DRIFT recapitulation
  19. Neutral Theory recapitulation
  20. Dynamics of Genetic Variation
  21. Geographic structure & migration
  22. Vocabulary

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