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Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes Cambridge University
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is an introductory textbook in discrete mathematical modeling
covering a wide variety of biological topics: dynamic models of
population growth, models of molecular evolution, the
construction of phylogenetic trees, genetics, and infectious
disease modeling. The authors, Elizabeth S. Allman and John A.
Rhodes, describe their target audience as undergraduates "having
a strong interest in biological science and a mathematical
background sufficient to study calculus." While they do not
assume any training in calculus or beyond, they do include
(well-marked) supplemental exercises that give students who have
had calculus an opportunity to pursue the connection between the
discrete and the continuous. The authors have made some MATLAB
programs available to accompany the t