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Edited By
Michael Rose, University of California, Irvine
George Lauder, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Description
The study of evolutionary adaptation returns to the center stage of biology with this important volume. This innovative treatise discusses
new developments in adaptation, with new methods, and new theoretical foundations, achievements, and prospects for a rich intellectual
future. Once again adaptation is established as a fundamental cornerstone of evolution by means of natural selection. This is an insightful
reintroduction to the themes that Darwin and his successors regarded as central to any profound understanding of biology.
Audience
Ideal for faculty, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates in any area of evolutionary biology including ecology, natural history,
and systematics as well as people interested in the evolution from viruses and other disease causing organisms to the evolution of key
innovations in entirely new groups of organisms.
Contents
Introduction:
M.R. Rose and G.V. Lauder, Post-Spandrel Adaptationism.
Concepts and Theories of Adaptation:
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Amundson, History and Concepts of Adapatation.G. Lauder, The Argument from Design.J. Seger and J.W. Stubblefield,
Optimization and Adaptation.M. Kirkpatrick, Genes and Adaptation: A Pocket Guide to the Theory.
Empirical Methods for Studying
Adaptation:
B. Sinervo and A. Basolo, Testing Adaptation Using PhenotypicManipulations.J. Losos and A. Larson, Phylogenetic
Systematics of Adaptation.M.R. Rose, T.J. Nusbaum, and A.K. Chippindale, Laboratory Evolution: The Experimental Wonderland and
the Cheshire Cat Syndrome.R. Hudson, The Empirical Study of Adaptation in Natural Populations.R. Hudson, Molecular Population
Genetics of Adaptation.M. Novacek, Paleontological Data and the Study of Adaptation.
diversity of Adaptive Processes:
G. Vermeij, Resistance and Response: Adaptation and Its Implication for Individuals and Clades.M.J. Wade, Adaptation in
Subdivided Populations: Kin Selection and Interdemic Selection.L.D. Hurst, Adaptation and Selection of Genomic Parasites.S.A.
Frank, The Design of Naturaland Artificial Adaptive Systems.
Chapter References.
Subject Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 511 pages, publication date: SEP-1996
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-596421-0
ISBN-10: 0-12-596421-8
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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