Population Genetics, 2nd Edition
Published by Wiley-Blackwell

Population Genetics 2E is a survey textbook designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Newly revised and updated. 

The book is accompanied by a web site with instructions, links and downloads for problems and Interact Boxes. There is also web page with instructor resources (registration required).

​For more information or to purchase the book go to https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Population+Genetics,+2nd+Edition-p-9781118436943​
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Contents
  1. Thinking like a population geneticist
  2. Genotype frequencies
  3. Genetic drift and effective population size
  4. Population structure and gene flow
  5. Mutation
  6. Fundamentals of natural selection
  7. Further models of natural selection
  8. Molecular evolution
  9. Quantitative trait variation and evolution
  10. The Mendelian basis of quantitative trait variation​

Features of the book include:
  • A narrative style and content targeted at multiple learning styles (experiential, intuitive, mathematical and by-example learners)
  • Interact Boxes that contain interactive simulation exercises designed to illustrate fundamental concepts
  • Math Boxes that contain fully explained mathematical details and derivations
  • Chapter summaries that highlight key concepts
  • A large number of two color figures to illustrate and animate the concepts presented
  • Complete coverage of the fundamentals of coalescence theory
  • End-of-chapter problems (with solutions to some problems available to instructors)
Simulations that demonstrate concepts in the text: evolutiongenetics.georgetown.edu.

These simulations were developed with the support of a grant from Georgetown's Initiative for Technology Enhanced Learning (ITEL).
Second Edition errata:

The CV values in Fig. 9.1 are incorrect. A corrected version of Fig. 9.1 is here: population_genetics_2e_fig_9.1_corrected.pdf


last updated Sept 15, 2021.​
First Edition

Errata for first edition​ of Population Genetics. This file was last updated September 20, 2021.
Reviews of the first edition:
CHOICE Reviews Online, November, 2009 
​(http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx?page=reviewdisplay&pid=3497859)

Human Genetics 126:851-852, December, 2009 (http://www.springerlink.com/content/t3n2k612525r802n/?p=92d11fce3a8a431aad1a4773b9132fc6&pi=10).

The Quarterly Review of Biology 85(1):106, March, 2010 (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/650254)