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Record Id:
040-000477901
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-000375067
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000228.0x00012d
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 86657
Title:
Continuous evolution - Sex
Scope & Content:

Some items are undated.

Loose item:

  • Maynard Smith, 'Symbolism and chance for 'Bunge Festschrift', University of Bielefeld.

Folder marked 'What determines the rate of evolution? Draft'. Pen doodles on cover.

  • Outline for Population Genetics Group conference– Sussex; 1974. Handwritten notes and diagrams relating to Whence's law of constant extinction?
  • Doodles on back of conference programme.
  • Handwritten manuscript 'What determines the rate of evolution?' and list of literature cited.

Loose item:

  • Graph and notes.

Folder marked 'Continuous evolution in asexual population – calculations'.

  • Handwritten corrections for 'N>1/u'.
  • Handwritten calculations of 'm and te'.
  • Handwritten notes on sustained evolution rates.
  • Table showing the theory of simulation.
  • Handwritten notes on sustained evolution rates.
  • Handwritten notes and equations.

Folder entitled 'Sustained rate of evolution – draft'.

  • Handwritten manuscript 'The effect of recombination on the maximum sustainable rate of evolution'. Also typewritten copy which has been annotated and notes attached to the back.

Loose items:

  • Letter from Samuel Karlin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) to Maynard Smith; 3 Oct 1972.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Samuel Karlin; 13 Oct 1972.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Sanuel Karlin; 2 Nov 1972.
  • Letter from Samuel Karlin to Maynard Smith; 9 Nov 1972.
  • Table 4 showing the results of simulation of evolution of a recombination allele.

Folder marked 'Sex and evolution (Boulder) and (notes – reprints)'.

  • Handwritten notes on various articles

Loose item:

  • Maynard Smith, 'Recombination and the rate of evolution', 1973. Presented at a Genetics Congress in 1973. Typewritten.

Folder marked 'Pop'n Biol Systematic biol conference August 4-12 1973 and genetics conference.'

  • Paper by Maynard Smith entitled 'Sex and evolution'

Folder marked 'Sex and evolution rate'.

  • Letter to Maynard Smith from James F. Crow; 3 Oct 1968. Signed. Enclosed is an article by James F. Crow: Reply to Maynard Smith's article 'Evolution in sexual and asexual populations'. Typewritten.
  • Letter to Marcus Feldman from James F. Crow; 17 Jun 1970. Typewritten. Annotation on the letter reads 'It has been passed to Maynard Smith, 1970'.
  • Handwritten notes and figures.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000477901
Is part of:
Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files

 

Add MS 86657 : Continuous evolution - Sex
Hierarchy:
032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0062]/040-000477901
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
6 sub-folders and 8 loose items
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1972
End Date:
1974
Date Range:
1972-1974
Era:
CE
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