A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection

A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection is the title of a series of scientific papers by the British population geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, published between 1924 and 1934. Haldane outlines the first mathematical models for many cases of evolution due to selection, an important concept in the modern evolutionary synthesis.

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The papers were published in ten parts over ten years in three different journals.

Part	Year	Subtitle (if applicable)	Reference	External links
I	1924	-	Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:19-41	Evolution - Classic texts
II	1924	The influence of partial self-fertilisation, inbreeding, assortative mating and selective fertilisation on the composition of Mendelian populations and on natural selection	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1:158-163
III	1926	-	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:363-372
IV	1927	-	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:607-615
V	1927	Selection and mutation	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:838-844
VI	1930	Isolation	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26:220-230
VII	1931	Selection intensity as a function of mortality rate	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:131-136
VIII	1932	Metastable populations	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:137-142
IX	1932	Rapid selection	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 28:244-248
X	1934	Some theorems on artificial selection	Genetics 19:412-429	Genetics website