Beyond Equilibria - Historical Approaches to Ecology and Evolution

Informationen zum Autor Hamish Spencer received his bachelor's degree in mathematics (1982) and his master's degree in zoology (1983) from the University of Auckland. He then studied for his doctorate at Harvard University, supervised by renowned geneticist Richard Lewontin. After graduating in 1988, he moved to the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Waikato, before taking up a lecturing position at the University of Otago's Department of Zoology, where today he is Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2023 he became a Fellow of the International Science Council. Klappentext Aimed at a broad audience of graduate students and researchers in ecology and evolution, this novel creates a persuasive argument that an explicit consideration of history will often lead to a deeper, more nuanced understanding of almost every eco-evolutionary system. Zusammenfassung Aimed at a broad audience of graduate students and researchers in ecology and evolution, this novel creates a persuasive argument that an explicit consideration of history will often lead to a deeper, more nuanced understanding of almost every eco-evolutionary system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Equilibrium 3: Contingency 4: Constraint 5: History as Template 6: Chance, Chaos and Capriciousness 7: Approach and Turnover 8: Construction Part 1: Explaining Allelic Diversity 9: Construction Part 2: Models Ecosystems and Theoretical Ecology 10: Concluding Remarks

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• Authors: Hamish G. Spencer, Hamish G. (Sesquicentennial Distinguished Spencer, Spencer Hamish G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2025
• EAN: 9780192859006
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285900-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Evolution, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, MATHEMATICS / Applied, History of Science, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Maths for scientists, Evolution / Evolutionary biology