ABSTRACT
Evolutionary biology, traditionally the domain of the naturalist, the palaeobiologist and the theoretical geneticist, is now dominated by molecular clocks, molecular drives, selfish DNA and the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships from molecular data. The theoretical basis of evolutionary theory, population biology, has declined in importance due to failure of theory to cope with observation.
This chapter examines the current structure of theoretical population genetics and ecology and their contribution to contemporary evolutionary biology.
