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A General Theory of Evolution
By selection by density dependent competitive interactions

Peer reviewed publications
  • Witting, L. 2007. Behavioral interactions selecting for symmetry and asymmetry in sexual reproductive systems of eusocial species. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 69:1167-1198 pdf © 2007 Society for Mathematical Biology. Online at SpringerLink

  • Witting, L. 2003. Major life-history transitions by deterministic directional natural selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology 225:389-406 pdf © 2003 Elsevier Science. Online at ScienceDirect

  • Witting, L. 2002. From asexual to eusocial reproduction by multilevel selection by density dependent competitive interactions. Theoretical Population Biology 61:171-195 pdf © 2002 Academic Press. Online at ScienceDirect

  • Witting, L. 2003. Reconstructing the population dynamics of eastern Pacific gray whales over the past 150 to 400 years. The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 5:45-54 pdf © 2003 The International Whaling Commission

  • Witting, L. 2002.Evolutionary dynamics of exploited populations selected by density dependent competitive interactions. Ecological Modelling 157:51-68 pdf © 2002 Elsevier Science. Online at Ecological Modelling or ScienceDirect

  • Witting, L. 2002. Two contrasting interpretations of Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection. Comments on Theoretical Biology 7:1-10 pdf © 2002 Taylor & Francis. Online at Taylor & Fracis

  • Witting, L. 2000. Population cycles caused by selection by density dependent competitive interactions. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 62:1109-1136 pdf © 2000 Society for Mathematical Biology. Online at ScienceDirect

  • Witting, L. 2000. Interference competition set limits to the fundamental theorem of natural selection. Acta Biotheoretica 48:107-120 abstract © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Kluwer Online

  • Witting, L. 1998. Body mass allometries caused by physiological or ecological constraints? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:25 html © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. Online at Elsevier Science

  • Witting, L. 1997. A General Theory of Evolution. By means of selection by density dependent competitive interactions. Peregrine Publisher, Aarhus. 350 pp. pdf © 1997 Peregrine Publisher

  • Witting, L. 1995. The body mass allometries as evolutionarily determined by the foraging of mobile organisms. Journal of Theoretical Biology 177:129-137. pdf © 1995 Academic Press. Online at ScienceDirect


Symposium / working papers etc.
  • Witting, L. 1997. The major evolutionary transitions as a deterministically unfolding process. Paper at the Sixth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, August, 1997. pdf © 1997 Peregrine Publisher

  • Witting, L. 1997. On directional and non-directional evolution by natural selection. Paper at the Sixth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, August, 1997. pdf © 1997 Peregrine Publisher

  • Witting, L. 1997. Conclusions from a general theory of evolution. Peregrine Publisher, Aarhus pdf © 1997 Peregrine Publisher