A model that unifies all types of selection (chemical, sociological, genetical, and every other kind of selection) may open the way to develop a gene… - George R. Price

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A model that unifies all types of selection (chemical, sociological, genetical, and every other kind of selection) may open the way to develop a general ‘Mathematical Theory of Selection’ analogous to communication theory... Selection has been studied mainly in genetics, but of course there is much more to selection than just genetical selection... yet, despite the pervading importance of selection in science and life, there has been no abstraction and generalisation from genetical selection to obtain a general selection theory and general selection mathematics

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About George R. Price

George Robert Price (October 6, 1922 – January 6, 1975) was an American population geneticist.

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