Evolutionary Biology of Species

Presents a synthetic overview of the evolutionary biology of species, incorporating their nature, origins, proliferation, and consequences.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: What are species?


• 3: The evidence for species - phenotypic and genetic clustering


• 4: Why are there species? - arenas of recombination and selection


• 5: What causes speciation?


• 6: Species and speciation without sex


• 7: Species boundaries and contemporary evolution


• 8: Species interactions and contemporary evolution


• 9: Predicting evolution in diverse communities


• 10: How does species richness accumulate over time?


• 11: Conclusions

About the author

Tim Barraclough was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Bradford Grammar School, and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. His DPhil research used large-scale phylogenetic data to look for correlates of diversification in birds and flowering plants. Moving to Imperial College London's Silwood Park campus in 1996, he worked first on the molecular systematics of tiger beetles, before establishing his own group with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship followed by a Lectureship in 2003. He has worked on a wide range of different animals, fungi, plants and bacteria and used a range of different methods ranging from theory and computation, through field work and systematics, to studying evolution 'live' in the laboratory. In 2012, he was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society for a scientist under the age of 40.

Summary

Presents a synthetic overview of the evolutionary biology of species, incorporating their nature, origins, proliferation, and consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy G. Barraclough, Timothy G. (Professor of Evolutionary Barraclough
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198749745
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874974-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Taxonomy & systematics, Genetics (non-medical), Dna & Genome, Computational biology / bioinformatics, Taxonomy and systematics