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A stochastic version of the Price equation reveals the interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes in evolution

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2008
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Title
A stochastic version of the Price equation reveals the interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes in evolution
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2008
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-8-262
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Sean H Rice

Abstract

Evolution involves both deterministic and random processes, both of which are known to contribute to directional evolutionary change. A number of studies have shown that when fitness is treated as a random variable, meaning that each individual has a distribution of possible fitness values, then both the mean and variance of individual fitness distributions contribute to directional evolution. Unfortunately the most general mathematical description of evolution that we have, the Price equation, is derived under the assumption that both fitness and offspring phenotype are fixed values that are known exactly. The Price equation is thus poorly equipped to study an important class of evolutionary processes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 6%
Germany 3 2%
Brazil 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Spain 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Vietnam 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 140 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 55 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 22%
Professor > Associate Professor 18 11%
Student > Master 13 8%
Professor 11 7%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 11 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 95 58%
Environmental Science 11 7%
Mathematics 6 4%
Physics and Astronomy 5 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 19 12%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2022.
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#7,149,102
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,621
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#32,169
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#13
of 37 outputs
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