The goal of this series, which reviews new theoretical ideas and frameworks, is to stimulate discussion and outline progress in evolutionary studies. It covers the entire field, providing coverage of all active schools of thought, with special features on major books in areas of particular interest, the publication of key research work, and responses to previously published articles.



Inhalt

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.

Titel
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology
Untertitel
Volume 8: 1991
EAN
9780195360417
ISBN
978-0-19-536041-7
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
08.10.1992
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
23.31 MB
Anzahl Seiten
416
Jahr
1992
Untertitel
Englisch