Re: The Founder Selection Effect
- From: Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:17:26 -0500 (EST)
fancyui wrote:
On Feb 4, 6:00 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Founder Selection Effect:
``The founders may represent a non-random sample of the
original population. This is very likely to be true
when the founders have succeeded in penetrating a
challenging barrier which normally acts to prevent migration.
In that case the founders may be individuals with
exceptional capabilities - since they penetrated the
barrier before any of the other members of their species
managed to do so.''
-http://alife.co.uk/essays/the_founder_selection_effect/
maybe we can analysis it step by step. a population in the original
environment, then be placed in a new environment by a way, where it
will be selected for. the development of new population depents on
the new environment and compositon of founders, so now the main
question is what is the compositon of founders. apparently, the
compositon of founders is determined by the original population and
the way by which they come into new environment. these diffuse methods
are similar as a filter, maybe function selectively or rondomly. [...]
Yes - it isn't hard to understand or model. My point is really
that the terminology and historical development of the concept
of the founder effect seems to have channeled thinking away
from such ideas - and maybe something can be done to fix that.
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