Definition of "population genetics" []

• The branch of science that deals with the statistical analysis of the inheritance and prevalence of genes in populations. (noun)

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• "They form a focus for some standard issues in contemporary population genetics (Maynard Smith, 1978; Wright, 1978), as well as extensions of those ideas into the social and behavioral sciences (Wilson, 1975; Hannan and Freeman, 1977; Vaughan and Herrnstein, 1987; Levitt and March, 1988)."