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This unique collection of essays deals with the foundation and historical development of population biology and its relationship to population genetics and population ecology on one hand and to the rapidly growing fields of molecular quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics on the other. Such an interdisciplinary treatment has never been attempted before. The volume is set in a historical context, but has up-to-date coverage of material in various related fields, bringing out the central role of population biology in all aspects of its connection to population genetics and population ecology.