%0 Journal Article
%T Evolution of the most recent common ancestor of a population with no selection
%A Damien Simon
%A Bernard Derrida
%J Quantitative Biology
%D 2006
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/05/P05002
%X We consider the evolution of a population of fixed size with no selection. The number of generations $G$ to reach the first common ancestor evolves in time. This evolution can be described by a simple Markov process which allows one to calculate several characteristics of the time dependence of $G$. We also study how $G$ is correlated to the genetic diversity.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601167v2