Concepts in population genetics#

This book contains a series of short chapters to accompany an upper division course in population genetics for undergraduates.

Graphs in evolutionary biology

• 1. Evolutionary graphs
• 2. Species trees
• 3. Pedigrees and “gene trees”
• 4. Pedigrees in randomly mating populations
• 5. Mutations on gene trees
• 6. Population graphs
• 7. Gene trees and DNA data

Population genetic data

• 8. The allele frequency spectrum

Appendix

• 9. Gene dropping on pedigrees
• 10. References cited