Small populations are predicted to have reduced capacity to adapt to environmental change
for two reasons. First, population genetic models indicate that genetic variation and potential …

The methods of quantitative genetics may be useful for quantifying constraints on the rate
and direction of response to selection in natural plant populations. We review the …

A basic principle of natural selection on correlated characters is expressed as an adaptive
topography for the vector of mean phenotypes in a population. Under some simple …

The joint evolution of female mating preferences and secondary sexual characters of males
is modeled for polygamous species in which males provide only genetic material to the next …

Whole-genome regression methods are being increasingly used for the analysis and
prediction of complex traits and diseases. In human genetics, these methods are commonly …

The impetus for this book arose out of my previous book, The Evolution of Life Histories
(Roff, 1992). In that book I presented a single chapter on quanti tative genetic theory …

This is an excellent new text on the basic theory and methods for the study of the inheritance
of continuous traits. It develops a reasoned account of the theory of quantitative genetics …

Quantitative genetic models of phenotypic evolution in small isolated populations are
presented, from the initial founding event to continued random genetic drift and natural …

I will argue that these problems are decoupled in prac-tice, because detailed genetic models
do not make useful predictions conceming the dynamics of the critical variance and …

The pattern of genetic covariation among traits (the G matrix) plays a central role in
determining the pattern of evolutionary change from both natural selection and random …