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Traditional theory in population genetics largely ignores the internal structure of a population and treats populations as homogeneous with respect to age, size, developmental stage, or other individual states. Although this is often a legitimate assumption for organisms with discrete generations, many species have overlapping generations, for which within-population structure should be taken into account. The last few decades have seen considerable interest in extending evolutionary models to include age structure. Charlesworth (1994) gave an account of the major results that have been obtained by applying ecological and demographic models of age-structured populations to population genetics and evolutionary theory. Although much progress has been made in this arena, there are still numerous problems in which neither age nor stage structure has been addressed.
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Kumm, J., Mylius, S.D., Promislow, D. (1997). Evolutionary Dynamics of Structured Populations. In: Tuljapurkar, S., Caswell, H. (eds) Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5973-3_10
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