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 the one hand and to the rapidly growing fields of molecular quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics on the other. Such an interdisciplinary treatment of population biology has never been attempted before. The volume is set in a historical context, but it has an up-to-date coverage of material in various related fields. The areas covered are the foundation of population biology, life history evolution and demography, density and frequency dependent selection, recent advances in quantitative genetics and bioinformatics, evolutionary case history of model organisms focusing on polymorphisms and selection, mating system evolution and evolution in the hybrid zones, and applied population biology including conservation, infectious diseases and human diversity. This is the third of three volumes published in honor of Richard Lewontin.

Contributors
Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Trudy Mackay, Daniel Hartl, Colin Meiklejohn, Cristian Castillo-Davis, Duccio Cavelieri, José Ranz, Jeffrey Townsend, Brian Golding, Rama Singh, Richard Morton, Freddy Christiansen, Bryan Clarke, John Gillespie, John Wakeley, Brian Charlesworth, Peter Taylor, Marcy Uyenoyama, Naoki Takebayashi, Ward Watt, Daniel Howard, Seth Britch, W. Evan Braswell, Jeremy Marshall, Daniel Lachaise, Pierre Capy, Marie-Louise Cariou, Dominique Joly, Francoise Lemeunier, Jean R. David, Philip Hedrick, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Paul Ewald, Gregory Cochran, Edward Holmes, Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, Will Provine