Re: Haldane's Dilemma - clarifications - and Felsenstein [LONG]


"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e7niks$10g8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
... One reasonable
definition of 'reproductive excess' for this kind of model might be
(Var(W)/E(W))^0.5 where W is the count of offspring for each individual.

Whoops! I meant (Var(W) ^ 0.5) / E(W).

That is, the standard deviation in fitness over mean fitness. It is not
really any kind of 'reproductive excess', but it does approximately
play the same role in limiting substitution in a fertility selection
model that reproductive excess might play in a survival selection model.


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