Adaptation
Published on 1. August 1996
Book
Hardback
550 pages
978-0-12-596420-3 (ISBN)
Description
The study of evolutionary adaptation returns to the centre stage of biology with this volume. This treatsie discusses new developments in adaption, with new methods, and new theoretical foundations, achievements and prospects for a rich future. Adaption is established as a fundamental corner-stone of evloution by means of natural selection. This text is a reintroduction to the themes that Darwin and his successors regarded as central to any profound understanding of biology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 173 mm
Weight
917 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-596420-3 (9780125964203)
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Content
Introduction: post-spandrel adaptationism, M.R. Rose and G.V. Lauder; concepts and theories of adaptation: history and concepts of adaptation, R. Amundson, the argument from design, G. Lauder; optimization and adaptation, J. Seger and J.W. Stubblefield, genes and adaptation - a pocket guide to the theory, M. Kirkpatrick; empirical methods for studying adaptation: testing adaptation using phenotypic manipulations, B. Sinervo and A. Basolo, phylogenetic systematics of adaptation, J. Losos and A. Larson, laboratory evolution - the experimental wonderland and the Cheshire Cat syndrome, M.R. Rose, T.J. Nusbaum, and A.K. Chippendale, the empirical study of adaptation in natural populations, R. Hudson, molecular population genetics of adaptation, R. Hudson, paleontological data and the study of adaptation, M. Novacek; diversity of adaptive processes: resistance and response - adaptation and its implication for individuals and clades, G. Vermeij, adaptation in subdivided populations - Kin selection and interdemic selection, M.J. Wade, adaptation and selection of genomic parasites, L.D. Hurst, the design of natural and artificial adaptive systems, S.A. Frank.