Description: 1. Introduction 2. Inbreeding Depression and Heterosis: Plants 3. Inbreeding in Animals: Differentiation and Depression 4. Variability under Inbreeding and Crossbreeding 5. Genotypic Persistence in Inbred Lines and Clones 6. The Course of Directional Selection 7. Artificial Selection Excluding Insects 8. Artificial Selection with Insects 9. Natural Selection in the Laboratory 10. Experimental Stochastic Distributions of Gene Frequencies 11. Mutation and Selection 12. Theories of Evolution: Mutation and Mass Selection 13. Shifting Balance Theories of Evolution 14. Genetic Load and Genetic Variability 15. The Evolution of Dominance 16. Breeds of Livestock 17. General Conclusions Bibliography Corrections for Volume 1 and 2 Author Index Subject Index

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