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| Quote (Steve Schaffner @ June 19 2009,13:33) | | Quote (slpage @ June 19 2009,13:09) | | I am still wondering why they think that constraining the outcomes to a constant population size is biolgically realistic. |
It's a feature of many population genetics models. It has the advantage of being simple. How accurate it is depends a lot on what organism you're looking at.
Of course, there's a big difference between using models to analyze how particular aspects of evolution work and trying to model the entire process well enough to say whether it can occur. |
Which is sort of my point. Their claim is that this is state of the art and realsitic, yet they appear to have employed certain parameters for simplicity rather than realism.
Constant population size is one of my pet peeves with Haldane's model as well.
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