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Title: An important book worthy of becoming a classic
Review: This is a very clearly written book. Hallibuton is such a talented writer and presents sometimes very difficult concepts with such effortless simplicity. One important aspect of this book is the way in which different ideas and different chapters are tied together. For example, the writter explains the infinite-alleles model and then goes on to describe why such a model could be useless at the molecular level, hence the need for an infinitely-many sites model. All the chapters are classic reading; his Chapter 4 on Recombination, Linkage and Disequilibrium in particular is a real treat. Halliburton also gives a very decent treatment of Coalescent Theory and even goes on to descibe extensions of it in the case of selection, population subdivision and recombination.This is a very recent important book, and a most deserving competitor to Hartl and Clark's "Principles of Population Genetics". It has my highest recommendations.
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