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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: geneflow:asymmetry,equilibrium
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.172805.19717@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <9010210525.AA06820@genbank.bio.net> <272321E7.18602@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 90 17:28:05 GMT

In article <272321E7.18602@orion.oac.uci.edu> manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark
Andersen) writes:
>Ann, you've identified an important problem, namely the importance of transient
>dynamics (i.e., what happens between the initial conditions and equilibrium)
>in both demography and population genetics.

     I'm just now starting to become aware of the biological literature due to
some new work I'm undertaking.  Conversely, I wonder how aware Biologists are
of the chemical and physics literatures.  Much work has been done by Chemists
on transient kinetics.  The models are different, but the methods should be
extensible.  In some ways, the problems of chemical kinetics and population
dynamics are the same (and different from those of physics) in that our phase
spaces are only physically observable for positive values of the coordinates.

                                Just a thought...

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca