Mathematical Population Genetics 1: Theoretical Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics Book 27) 2nd Edition by Warren J. Ewens (PDF)

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This is the first of a planned two-volume work discussing the mathematical aspects of population genetics with an emphasis on evolutionary theory. This volume draws heavily from the author’s 1979 classic, but it has been revised and expanded to include recent topics which follow naturally from the treatment in the earlier edition, such as the theory of molecular population genetics.

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⭐This is *the* classical text of the foundations of theoretical population genetics. It shouldn’t be your first exposure to the field, but if you want to fully understand how allele frequencies in a gene pool change over time, this is where you’ll find it nailed down.

⭐I have been looking for a book that explains the mathematics of population genetics. Unfortunately, Mathematical Population Genetics is not properly a mathematics book and so has failed to satisfy my needs, despite two attempts at reading it. The book is a desert of equations, with no definitions, theorems, lemmas, corollaries, or proofs. The organization is confusing, as is much of the text. There is no underlying mathematical theory or set of mathematical techniques that is being properly presented, so it all seems very ad hoc. Many steps in derivations are omitted, so it is easy to be confused about what the author means or to lose the thread of the derivation. Genetic and population genetic terminology is used without definition, so the book is not suited to learning about population genetics without prior background. The author also spends a great deal of time explicating the history and controversies of the field. This kind of material is distracting and better left to a section at the end of each chapter or a chapter at the end. As it was for me, the book will be a disappointment for mathematically sophisticated readers.

⭐This book is amazing. It does a great job of motivating and deriving answers to questions that a newcomer to the field typically has. It gives good historical context to these results and uses just the right amount of mathematical rigor to keep the focus on the bigger picture rather than technical details. Ewens clearly knows the subject intimately and is an expert guide.The other review that complains about lack of mathematical rigor is misguided. In my opinion, Ewens builds the reader’s intuition for evolutionary dynamics brilliantly. The object of study here is not mathematics but evolution. Physicists will love it.

⭐Das Buch an sich ist ein Muss für Populationsgenetiker. Allerdings ist die Kindle Version nur halbherzig gemacht. Die Formeln werden nicht richtig dargestellt, auch die mathematische Darstellungen im laufenden Text sind irreführend. Also ich bin sehr enttäuscht. Das ganze sieht aus wie eine schlechte copy-paste zwischen zwei nicht kompatiblen Formaten. Hätte doch das echte Buch kaufen soll. Wollte die Vorteile von e-book nutzen, war wohl doch nichts.

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