Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Cell biology and molecular genetics
3 Phylogeny and development
4 Elementary evolutionary dynamics
5 Probability and measurement
6 Statistical inference and estimation
7 Sequence, structure and function
8 Analysis of quantitative trait loci
9 Evolutionary dynamics of QTL
10 Adaptive dynamics and speciation
11 Traits as objects of selection
12 Fitness and optimality
Appendices
A Species, speciation and systematics
B Dangerous ideas
C Dynamics
D Constrained optimization
E Thermal physics

About the Author

Hugo van den Berg lectures at the University of Warwick’s Mathematics Institute where he teaches mathematical biology at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include physiological regulation in energy metabolism and uterine development, as well as the application of mathematical and statistical methodologies to probe the functional organisation of the cellular adaptive immune system.

Reviews

The book is written in an accessible style. and although it requires an understanding of calculus and statistical concepts, it is appropriate as an interdisciplinary bridge between mathematics, physics and biology.
Irina Ioana Mohorianu 2016 Zentralblatt MATH 1337 - 1, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure.
*Zentralblatt MATH 1337 - 1*