AdaptationMichael R. Rose, George V. Lauder 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.
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Contents
Historical Development of the Concept of Adaptation | 11 |
The Argument From Design | 55 |
Optimization and Adaptation | 93 |
Genes And Adaptation A Pocket Guide to the Theory | 125 |
Testing Adaptation Using Phenotypic Manipulations | 149 |
Phylogenetic Systematics of Adaptation | 187 |
Laboratory Evolution The Experimental Wonderland and the Cheshire Cat Syndrome | 221 |
The Empirical Study of Adaptation in Natural Populations | 243 |
Molecular Population Genetics of Adaptation | 291 |
Paleontological Data and the Study of Adaptation | 311 |
Adaptations of Clades Resistance and Response | 361 |
Adaptation in Subdivided Populations Kin Selection and Interdemic Selection | 379 |
Adaptation and Selection of Genomic Parasites | 405 |
The Design of Natural and Artificial Adaptive Systems | 449 |
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adaptationism adaptationist adaptive systems alleles alternative analysis approach argument from design behavior Biol cells character chromosomes clades cladistic clutch complex components constraints cytoplasmic Darwin demes developmental diversity drift Drosophila melanogaster ecological ecological genetics effects environment environmental evolutionary biology evolutionary change evolved example exaptation experimental explanation extinction females fossil frequency function genes genetic variation genome genotype Gould groups guppies habitat heritable homology hypotheses increase individual inference interaction laboratory evolution Lauder Lewontin lineages lizards loci male mating Maynard Smith mechanisms metapopulation morphology mutation natural populations natural selection offspring optimization organisms origin parasites patterns phenotypic manipulations phylogenetic phylogeny polymorphisms population genetic predation predictions problem protein quantitative genetic recombination relative replication reproduction response Reznick selective regime self-promoting elements sequence sexual selection Sinervo spandrels speciation species structure study of adaptation survival taxa theory toepads trade-offs trait transmission University Press variance Vrba Wade