After an introduction giving an outline and the editor's view of population biology, the following selected topics are reviewed by five authors:
(1) N. Takahata(National Institute of Genetics): Local Differentiation of Population and Differentiation of Species.
(2) K. Ishii (College of General Education, Nagoya University): Population Genetical Mechanism of Molecular Evolution.
(3) N. Yamamura (Department of Natural Science, Saga Medical School): Optimization Principle in Evolutionary Ecology.
(4) M. Tanemura (Institute of Statistical Mathematics): Pattern of Territory and Mechanism of its Formation.
(5) E. Teramoto (Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University): Population Size Distribution of Biological Communities.
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