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For all life on earth, reproduction – and the resulting genealogy – structures the variation we observe in the genome. Patterns within that variation carry information about the history of the population: the size of the population, migration within and between populations, and selective forces that acted on those populations. The study of this variation is the purpose of population geneticists. Coalescent theory provides a means of thinking about how that variation came to be, through consideration of the genealogical process. John Kingman formalized coalescent theory in 1982, and from then on coalescent theory has been an integral part of population genetics (Kingman 1982a,b).
Title: Coalescent theory
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For all life on earth, reproduction – and the resulting genealogy – structures the variation we observe in the genome.
Patterns within that variation carry information about the history of the population: the size of the population, migration within and between populations, and selective forces that acted on those populations.
The study of this variation is the purpose of population geneticists.
Coalescent theory provides a means of thinking about how that variation came to be, through consideration of the genealogical process.
John Kingman formalized coalescent theory in 1982, and from then on coalescent theory has been an integral part of population genetics (Kingman 1982a,b).
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