Experimental Evolution
Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2009
Book
Hardback
752 pages
978-0-520-24766-6 (ISBN)
Description
Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. Experimental evolution deliberately duplicates evolutionary processes - forcing life histories to evolve, producing adaptations to stressful environmental conditions, and generating lineage splitting to create incipient species. This unique volume summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining current techniques and applications, and presenting the field's full range of research - from selection in the laboratory to the manipulation of populations in the wild. It provides work on such key biological problems as the evolution of Darwinian fitness, sexual reproduction, life history, athletic performance, and learning.
Reviews / Votes
"Will surely be of interest to researchers looking for new ways to ask evolutionary questions... This book, almost encyclopedic in its breadth, will provide a valuable entree for those thinking about carrying out an experimental evolution study... For any problem under consideration, this book will lead one quickly and thoroughly into a fascinating literature, and will help one to carry out well-designed experiments."--Bioscience "Any evolutionary biologist can find their favorite subject in this book."--Evolution: Intl Journal of Organic Evolution "[This book] will provide a valuable entree for those thinking about carrying out an experimental evolution study."--BioscienceMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
7 b-w photographs, 108 line illustrations, 15 tables
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1452 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-24766-6 (9780520247666)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Theodore Garland | Michael R. Rose
Experimental Evolution
Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments
E-Book
12/2009
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€53.99
Available for download
Persons
Theodore Garland, Jr. is Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside. Michael B. Rose is Director of the Network for Experimental Research on Evolution, A University of California Multicampus Research Program, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine.