UC doctoral student presents research at international conference

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UC doctoral student presents research at international conference
Industry updates: Nov 4, 2010
Source:EurekAlert

UC doctoral student presents research at international conference
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Clement Loo, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student in the philosophy program, was one of the featured researchers at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association Nov. 4-6 in Montreal, Quebec. The association promotes research, teaching and free discussion of issues in the philosophy of science.

Loo presented research themed around a Nov. 4 session on biology, evolution and selection. His paper was titled, "Invasive Species and Evaluating the Relative Significance of the Shifting Balance Theory."

The paper focused on the R.A. Fisher and Sewall Wright debate on evolutionary theory, arguing in favor of adopting Wright's Shifting Balance Theory over Fisher's theory of selection in exploring how invasive species thrive and overtake native, established populations...

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Sewall Wright and the Development of Shifting Balance Theory
By: Norman Johnson, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA) © 2008 Nature Education
Citation: Johnson, N. (2008) Sewall Wright and the development of shifting balance theory. Nature Education 1(1)
How do populations go from one genotype to another genotype if the intermediate phenotypes have lower fitness? The evolutionary forces that explain this make up the shifting balance theory.
Sewall Wright and the Development of Shifting Balance Theory | Learn Science at Scitable

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
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