GarretkadeDupre writes:
Would someone else please help me here? I've read the paper through more than once. I've been told that Haldane does in fact account for sexual recombination in his paper, but I don't see where or how.
Just poking around on the Internet I found this over at the
Wikipedia article on Haldane's Dilemma:
Wikipedia writes:
Haldane stated at the time of publication "I am quite aware that my conclusions will probably need drastic revision", and subsequent corrected calculations found that the cost disappears. He had made an invalid simplifying assumption which negated his assumption of constant population size, and had also incorrectly assumed that two mutations would take twice as long to reach fixation as one, while sexual recombination means that two can be selected simultaneously so that both reach fixation more quickly.
So it looks like the answer is no, Haldane did not account for sexual recombination.
--Percy
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