In this interview, Dr. WilliamBill� Hill has a conversation with Dr. Geoff Simm about his career as a geneticist and theoretician. Professor Hill, afarmer�s son�, traces his career from his Ph.D. with the Edinburgh Group through his retirement as Dean of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He discusses his lifelong interests in the consequences of linkage disequilibrium on selection response in populations of finite size, widely celebrated as theHill-Robertson effect�, and factors that maintain genetic variation in populations such as mutation.
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In this interview, Dr. WilliamBill� Hill has a conversation with Dr. Geoff Simm about his career as a geneticist and theoretician. Professor Hill, afarmer�s son�, traces his career from his Ph.D. with the Edinburgh Group through his retirement as Dean of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He discusses his lifelong interests in the consequences of linkage disequilibrium on selection response in populations of finite size, widely celebrated as theHill-Robertson effect�, and factors that maintain genetic variation in populations such as mutation.
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