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Science 22 April 1983:
Vol. 220. no. 4595, pp. 372 - 378
DOI: 10.1126/science.220.4595.372
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Behavioral Phylogenies and the Direction of Evolution

Luther Val Giddings 1 and Alan R. Templeton 2

1 Research associate in the Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
2 Professor in the Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

A model for using mate preference data to deduce the direction of evolution between populations related by founder events or population bottlenecks is examined. Data from a wide range of organisms satisfying the necessary constraints of population structure are compatible with the model developed by K. Y. Kaneshiro from studies of Hawaiian Drosophila.


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