Experimental Evolution. Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments

Garland Jr., Theodore, and Michael R. Rose, Eds.

ISBN 10: 0520261801 / ISBN 13: 9780520261808

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009

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xviii + 730 pp. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper and top edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Experimental Evolution. Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520261801
• ISBN 13: 9780520261808
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biology

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Synopsis

Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. Experimental evolution deliberately duplicates evolutionary processes―forcing life histories to evolve, producing adaptations to stressful environmental conditions, and generating lineage splitting to create incipient species. This unique volume summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining current techniques and applications, and presenting the field’s full range of research―from selection in the laboratory to the manipulation of populations in the wild. It provides work on such key biological problems as the evolution of Darwinian fitness, sexual reproduction, life history, athletic performance, and learning.

About the Author

Theodore Garland, Jr. is Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside. Michael B. Rose is Director of the Network for Experimental Research on Evolution, A University of California Multicampus Research Program, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine.