Speciation in Birds

Informationen zum Autor ?Trevor Price has spent his professional career studying speciation in birds! working for his doctoral thesis on the famous adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches in the Galapagos Islands. For the past 20 years he has been studying speciation and adaptive radiation in the Himalayas. He is Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago. Klappentext - Zusammenfassung In Speciation in Birds, Trevor Price, a University of Chicago professor and leading expert in the field, has written the most authoritative and modern synthesis on the subject to date. Inhaltsverzeichnis ?1. Introduction.- 2. Geography and Ecology.- 3. Geographical variation.- 4. Parapatric Speciation.- 5. Ecological speciation.- 6. Ecological controls and speciation on continents.- 7. Behavior and ecology.- 8. Geographical isolation and the causes of island endemism.- 9. Social Selection.- 10. Social selection and the evolution of song.- 11. Divergence in response to increased sexual selection.- 12. Social selection and ecology.- 13. Species recognition.- 14. Mate choice at the end of speciation.- 15. Hybrid zones.- 16. Genetic incompatibility.- 17. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Price
• Publisher: Macmillan Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2007
• EAN: 9780974707785
• ISBN: 978-0-9747077-8-5
• No. of pages: 470
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; B, Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Life Sciences, general