%0 Journal Article
%T Feller's Contributions to Mathematical Biology
%A Ellen Baake
%A Anton Wakolbinger
%J Mathematics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%X This is a review of William Feller's important contributions to mathematical biology. The seminal paper [Feller1951] "Diffusion processes in genetics" was particularly influential on the development of stochastic processes at the interface to evolutionary biology, and interesting ideas in this direction (including a first characterization of what is nowadays known as "Feller's branching diffusion") already shaped up in the paper [Feller 1939] (written in German) "The foundations of a probabistic treatment of Volterra's theory of the struggle for life". Feller's article "On fitness and the cost of natural selection" [Feller 1967] contains a critical analysis of the concept of "genetic load".
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05278v1