D. B. Weissman

Population structure can reduce clonal interference when sexual reproduction and dispersal are synchronized

The paper shows that synchronized dispersal and sexual reproduction reduce clonal interference and increase adaptation rates in spatially structured populations.

50 shades of greenbeard: Robust evolution of altruism based on similarity of complex phenotypes

This study shows that altruism can be robustly maintained in a population through similarity-based cooperation in multidimensional phenotype space, with higher dimensions enhancing altruism resistance to cheaters.

Heterogeneity in viral infections increases the rate of deleterious mutation accumulation

The paper shows that viral coinfection and cellular heterogeneity in viral output increase the rate of deleterious mutation accumulation during replication.

Fitness dependence preserves selection for recombination across diverse mixed mating systems

The paper shows that fitness-dependent recombination is often favoured over constant recombination in diverse mating systems.

Isolation by Distance in Populations with Power-law Dispersal

This study shows that long-range dispersal with a power-law distribution changes isolation by distance patterns, leading to power-law decay of identity-by-descent at both large and short distances.

Increased adaptability to rapid environmental change can more than make up for the two-fold cost of males

The paper shows that increased adaptability from anisogamy can offset the two-fold cost of males by allowing faster adaptation through super-successful males in changing environments.

Hitchhiking in space: ancestry in adapting, spatially-extended populations

The paper shows that in spatially-extended populations, selective sweeps can affect ancestry patterns across the whole genome, reducing neutral genetic diversity outside a central region.

Minimal-assumption inference from population-genomic data

This paper introduces MAGIC, a method that infers coalescence times from population-genomic data without assuming recombination or demography models, showing it works better with large samples and detects inconsistencies in human genome data.