Pillars of Evolution

Fundamental principles of the eco-evolutionary process

Autor: Douglas W. Morris, Per Lundberg

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Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new...

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Autor

Douglas W. Morris, Per Lundberg

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

280

EAN

9780198568797

ISBN

0198568797

Enbook ID

04527892

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

718

Dimensiuni

174 x 249 x 19

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Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new to the study of evolution will find a refreshing new insight that establishes evolutionary biology as a rigorous and predictive science, whilst practicing biologists will discover a provocative book that challenges traditional approaches. The book begins by leading readers through the mechanics of heredity, reproduction, movement, survival, and development. With that framework in place, it then explores the numerous ways that traits emerge from the interactions between genetics, development, and the environment. The key message is that adaptive changes in traits (and their underlying allelic frequencies) evolve through the traits' functions and their connection with fitness. The complex mappings from genes-to-traits-to-fitness are characterized in the structure of evolution. A single "structure matrix" describes why individuals vary in the values of adaptive traits, their ability to perform the function of those traits, and in the fitness they accrue. Fitness depends on how organisms interact with and perceive their environment in time and space. These relationships are made explicit in spatial, temporal, and organizational scale that also sets the stage for the crucially important role that ecology always plays in evolution. The ecological hallmarks of density- and frequency-dependent interactions allow the authors to explore new and exciting insights into evolution's dynamics. The theories and principles are then brought together in a final synthesis on adaptation. The book's unique approach unites genetic, development, and environmental influences into a single comprehensive treatment of the eco-evolutionary process.

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