Adaptation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rose, Michael R. (Michael Robertson), 1955-, Lauder, George V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Post-spandrel adaptationism / Michael R. Rose and George V. Lauder
  • Historical development of the concept of adaptation / Ron Amundson
  • The argument from design / George V. Lauder
  • Optimization and adaptation / Jon Seger and J. William Stubblefield
  • Genes and adaptation: a pocket guide to the theory / Mark Kirkpatrick
  • Testing adaptation using phenotypic manipulations / Barry Sinervo and Alexandra L. Basolo
  • Phylogenetic systematics of adaptation / Allan Larson and Jonathan B. Losos
  • Laboratory evolution: the experimental wonderland and the cheshire cat syndrome / Michael R. Rose, Theodore J. Nusbaum, and Adam K. Chippindale
  • The empirical study of adaptation in natural populations / David Reznick and Joseph Travis
  • Molecular population genetics of adaptation / Richard R. Hudson
  • Paleontological data and the study of adaptation / Michael J. Novacek
  • Adaptations of clades: resistance and response / Geerat J. Vermeij
  • Adaptation in subdivided populations: kin selection and interdemic selection / Michael J. Wade
  • Adaptation and selection of genomic parasites / Laurence D. Hurst
  • The design of natural and artificial adaptive systems / Steven A. Frank.