The Causes of Evolution is a 1932 book on evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (1990 edition ISBN 0-691-02442-1), based on a series of Jan. 1931 lectures entitled "A Re-examination of Darwinism". It was highly influential in the founding of population genetics

Population genetics

Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow. It also takes into account the factors of recombination, population subdivision and population...

 and the modern synthesis.

Chapters

It contains the following chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Variation within a Species
3. The Genetical Analysis of Interspecific Differences
4. Natural Selection
5. What is Fitness?
6. Conclusion

The book also contains an extensive appendix containing the majority of Haldane's mathematical treatment of the subject.

External links

• Description by Princeton U Press
• Contemporary review by R.A. Fisher
• Review of the 1990 Princeton University reprint