English Explanatory Dictionary

Hill-Robertson effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon whereby genetic recombination allows evolution to progress more quickly.

Word forms

Hill-Robertson effect Hill-Robertson effects

Etymology

First identified by Bill Hill and Alan Robertson in 1966.

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