Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 7: 1990

Zusatztext Volume 8 of the series of Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology continues the style set by its predecessors! and its contents are stimulating for discussion and progress in various topical areas of evolutionary biology. Klappentext This new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks! and outlines progress in evolutionary studies. Zusammenfassung This new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks! and outlines progress in evolutionary studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Ernst Mayr: Controversies in retrospect; Michael J. Wade: Sewall Wright: Gene interaction and the shifting balance theory; Mark L. Taper & Ted J. Case: Coevolution among competitiors; Wen-Hsiung & Lori Sadler: DNA variations in humans and its implications for human evolution; Hiroko Morishima, Yoshio Sano & Hiko-Ichi Oka: Evolutionary studies in cultivated rice and its wild relatives; James D. Bever & Francois Felber: The theoretical population genetics of autopolyploidy; Warren D. Allmon: A causal analysis of stages in allopatric speciation; V. Louise Roth: Inferences from allometry and fossils: Dwarfing of elephants on islands; Marvalee H. Wake: Morphology, the study of form and function, in modern evolutionary biology; A.E. Douglas: Symbiosis in evolution; Index; Contents lists of previous volumes.

List of contents

List of contributors; Richard R. Hudson: Gene genealogies and the coalescent process; John C. Avise & R. Martin Ball, Jr: Principles of genealogical concordance in species concepts and biological taxonomy; Richard C. Harrison: Hybrid zones: windows on evolutionary process; Hampton L. Carson: Evolutionary process as studied in population genetics: clues from phylogeny; Michael J. Ryan: Sexual selection, sensory systems, and sensory exploitation; M.W. Shaw & G.M. Hewitt: B chromosomes, selfish DNA, and theoretical models: where next?; D. Couvet, A. Atlan, E. Belhassen, C. Gliddon, P.H. Gouyon, & F. Kjellberg: Coevolution between two symbionts: the case of cytoplasmic male-sterility in higher plants; Albert F. Bennett & Raymond B. Huey: Studying the evolution of physiological performance; May R. Berenbaum: Plant consumers and plant secondary chemistry: past, present and future; Index; Content lists of previous volumes.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas (Professor of Ecology and Evoluti Futuyma, Futuyma Antonovics
• Assisted by: Janis Antonovics (Editor), Janis (Professor of Botany Antonovics (Editor), Douglas Futuyma (Editor), Douglas (Professor of Ecology and Evolution Futuyma (Editor), Douglas J. Futuyma (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1992
• EAN: 9780195076233
• ISBN: 978-0-19-507623-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary; Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; NATURE / Ecology, Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Applied ecology, Social impact of environmental issues, Genetics (non-medical), Evolution / Evolutionary biology