A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection is the title of a series of scientific papers by the British

United Kingdom

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 population geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, published between 1924 and 1934. Haldane outlines the first mathematical models for many cases of evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

 due to selection

Selection

In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of genes segregating within a population may be subject to selection. Under selection, individuals with advantageous or "adaptive" traits tend to be more successful than their peers reproductively—meaning they contribute more offspring to the...

, an important concept in the modern evolutionary synthesis

Modern evolutionary synthesis

The modern evolutionary synthesis is a union of ideas from several biological specialties which provides a widely accepted account of evolution...

.

Overview

The papers were published in ten parts over ten years in three different journals.

Part	Year	Subtitle (if applicable)	Reference	External links
I	1924	-	Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:19-41	Evolution - Classic texts http://www.springerlink.com/content/p7r064m622826800/Springer Springer Science+Business Media - Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...  website]
II	1924	The influence of partial self-fertilisation, inbreeding, assortative mating and selective fertilisation on the composition of Mendelian populations and on natural selection	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1:158-163	http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119902352/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0Wiley Interscience John Wiley & Sons John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...  website]
III	1926	-	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:363-372	CJO website
IV	1927	-	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:607-615	CJO website
V	1927	Selection and mutation	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 23:838-844	CJO website
VI	1930	Isolation	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26:220-230	CJO website
VII	1931	Selection intensity as a function of mortality rate	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:131-136	CJO website
VIII	1932	Metastable populations	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 27:137-142	CJO website
IX	1932	Rapid selection	Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 28:244-248	CJO website
X	1934	Some theorems on artificial selection	Genetics Genetics (journal) Genetics is a monthly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Genetics is published by the Genetics Society of America... 19:412-429	Genetics website