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Selection : the mechanism of evolution / by Graham Bell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford biologyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 553 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0198569726
  • 9780198569725
  • 9780198569732 (pbk.)
  • 0198569734 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH375 .B44 2008
Contents:
The second science -- Simple selection -- The genetic and ecological context of selection -- History, chance, and necessity -- The rate of genetic deterioration -- The rate of environmental deterioration -- Natural selection in closed asexual populations -- Microcosmologia -- Sorting : selection or pre-existing variation -- Purifying selection : maintaining adaptedness despite genetic deterioration -- Directional selection : restoring adaptedness despite environmental deterioration -- Successive substitution -- Cumulative adaptation -- Successive substitution at several loci -- Prometheus unbound : releasing the constraints on natural selection -- Increasing the mutation rate -- Horizontal transmission -- Sex -- Dispersal -- Selection in multicellular organisms -- Size matters -- Reproductive allocation -- Life histories -- Artificial selection -- Selection acting on quantitative variation -- Generations 1-10 : the short-term response -- Generations 10-1000 : the limits to selection -- Generations 100 up : new kinds of creatures. Natural selection in open populations -- Fitness in natural populations -- Phenotypic selection -- Selection experiments in the field -- Adaptation to the humanized landscape -- The ghost of selection past -- Adaptive radiation : diversity and specialization -- Adaptive and non-adaptive radiation -- G X E -- Specialization and generalization -- Opportunities in space : obligations in time -- Local adaptation -- Autoselection : selfish genetic elements -- Infection -- Interference -- Gonotaxis -- Social selection -- Selection within a single uniform population : density-dependent selection -- Selection within a single diverse population : frequency-dependent selection -- Social behaviour -- Kin selection and group selection -- Co-evolution -- Rivals -- Partners -- Enemies -- Ecosystems -- Sexual selection -- Evolution of sex -- The alternation of generations -- Gender -- Beauty and the beast -- Speciation -- Speciation and diversification -- Experimental speciation -- Emerging species -- Epitome -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 500-546) and index.

The second science -- Simple selection -- The genetic and ecological context of selection -- History, chance, and necessity -- The rate of genetic deterioration -- The rate of environmental deterioration -- Natural selection in closed asexual populations -- Microcosmologia -- Sorting : selection or pre-existing variation -- Purifying selection : maintaining adaptedness despite genetic deterioration -- Directional selection : restoring adaptedness despite environmental deterioration -- Successive substitution -- Cumulative adaptation -- Successive substitution at several loci -- Prometheus unbound : releasing the constraints on natural selection -- Increasing the mutation rate -- Horizontal transmission -- Sex -- Dispersal -- Selection in multicellular organisms -- Size matters -- Reproductive allocation -- Life histories -- Artificial selection -- Selection acting on quantitative variation -- Generations 1-10 : the short-term response -- Generations 10-1000 : the limits to selection -- Generations 100 up : new kinds of creatures. Natural selection in open populations -- Fitness in natural populations -- Phenotypic selection -- Selection experiments in the field -- Adaptation to the humanized landscape -- The ghost of selection past -- Adaptive radiation : diversity and specialization -- Adaptive and non-adaptive radiation -- G X E -- Specialization and generalization -- Opportunities in space : obligations in time -- Local adaptation -- Autoselection : selfish genetic elements -- Infection -- Interference -- Gonotaxis -- Social selection -- Selection within a single uniform population : density-dependent selection -- Selection within a single diverse population : frequency-dependent selection -- Social behaviour -- Kin selection and group selection -- Co-evolution -- Rivals -- Partners -- Enemies -- Ecosystems -- Sexual selection -- Evolution of sex -- The alternation of generations -- Gender -- Beauty and the beast -- Speciation -- Speciation and diversification -- Experimental speciation -- Emerging species -- Epitome -- References -- Index.