''The Causes of Evolution'' is a 1932 book on evolution by

J.B.S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

(1990 edition ), based on a series of January 1931 lectures entitled "A Re-examination of Darwinism". It was influential in the founding of

population genetics Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology. Studies in this branch of biology examine such phenomena as adaptation, speciation, and pop ...

and the

modern synthesis Modern synthesis or modern evolutionary synthesis refers to several perspectives on evolutionary biology, namely: * Modern synthesis (20th century), the term coined by Julian Huxley in 1942 to denote the synthesis between Mendelian genetics and s ...

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It contains the following chapters: #Introduction #Variation within a Species #The Genetical Analysis of Interspecific Differences #Natural Selection #What is Fitness? #Conclusion The book also contains an extensive appendix containing the majority of Haldane's mathematical treatment of the subject.

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R.A. Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who a ...

Review of the 1990 Princeton University reprint
1932 non-fiction books Books about evolution Modern synthesis (20th century) Population genetics Works by J. B. S. Haldane 1932 in biology {{Evolution-book-stub

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