P. D. Sniegowski

Natural selection promotes the evolution of recombination 1: between the products of natural selection

The paper challenges the conventional view that natural selection opposes recombination by showing it actually favors recombination through the assembly of selectively mismatched gene combinations.

Natural selection promotes the evolution of recombination 2: during the process of natural selection

This paper shows that natural selection on heritable variation always creates conditions favoring recombination, regardless of genetic fitness distribution.

Natural selection and the advantage of recombination

This paper shows that natural selection favors poorly-matched gene combinations and creates negative associations, which recombination breaks up, making recombination universally advantageous.

Mutational load and the functional fraction of the human genome

This paper examines whether mutational load limits the functional fraction of the human genome and finds that such a limit is not strongly constrained by mutational load.

Sign of selection on mutation rate modifiers depends on population size

The paper shows that mutator alleles, which increase mutation rates, are favored by indirect selection in large populations but disfavored in smaller ones, demonstrating sign inversion in their selective effect.