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Subject: predicting selection response - thanks
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:52:56 +0100
From: Milos Blagojevic <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
I just wish to express gratitude for very constructive advices of prof.
Polly and prof. Klingenberg that geared my thinking toward entirely new
perspective. The inherent complexity of G matrix construction from
natural populations could not be easily overcome, but coupled with
ever-scarce availability of samples (skulls of Rupicapra sp. and
Capreolus capreolus in my case) even that difficulty seems like a way
out. On the other hand simulation-type approach to shape evolution
always attracted me, and while waiting for new skulls I can include in
my analyzes, I am willing to try some simulations. Again the
quantitative genetic side, although hard to simulate, faces another
problem, and that is the relative unavailability of rates of evolution
data for Bovidae or Cervidae family that I know of.
Either way, until my sample size does not attain significance (for now
only 15 Chamois skulls from one population) I am limited to scratching
the surface of phenotypic evolution theory.
Thanks again,
Milos
