Book Review

Which research fields and biological subdisciplines should we classify as “evolu-tionary genetics”? To some purists, evolutionary genetics should primarily include the two major branches that historically gave rise to the field: Population genetics and quantitative genetics. Those who hold this view would point to the historical roots of both these branches of genetics and especially the important role of the three founding fathers of mathematical population genetics: J.B.S. Haldane and R.A. Fisher in the UK, and Sewall Wright in the US (Provine, 1986). To others, including myself, evolutionary genetics is a much broader discipline that does also include studies that have little do with genetics sensu strictu, but would also in-clude, for example, studies estimating the strength and form of natural and sexual selection in natural populations (Lande and Arnold, 1983; Kingsolver et al., 2001). Others take an even broader definition of evolutionary genetics, and do also include other areas of organismal biology, such as epigenetic inheritance, species concepts, life-history evolution and developmental biology. This is apparently the broad def-inition that is preferred by Charles W. Fox and Jason B. Wolf, who have edited a