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The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology

The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology

9780199595389
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The Adaptive Landscape has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932. Eighty years later, it has become a central framework in evolutionary quantitative genetics, selection studies in natural populations, and in studies of ecological speciation and adaptive radiations. Recently, the simple concept of adaptive landscapes in two dimensions (genes or traits) has been criticized andseveral new and more sophisticated versions of the original adaptive landscape evolutionary model have been developed in response. No published volume has yet critically discussed the past, present state, and future prospect of the adaptive landscape in evolutionary biology. This volume bringstogether prominent historians of science, philosophers, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, with the aim of discussing the state of the art of the Adaptive Landscape from several different perspectives.
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OUP Oxford
86901
9780199595389
9780199595389

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Publication date
2012
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
336
Dimensions (mm)
189 x 246
Weight (g)
652
  • Preface; PART I: Historical Background and Philosophical Perspectives; A Shifting Terrain: A Brief History of the Adaptive Landscape; Sewall Wrights Adaptive Landscape: Philosophical Reflections on Heuristic Value; Landscapes, Surfaces and Morphospaces: What are they good for?; PART II: Controversies: Fishers Fundamental Theory Versus Sewall Wrights Shifting Balance Theory; Wrights Adaptive Landscape versus Fishers Fundamental Theorem; Wrights Adaptive Landscape: Testing the Predictions of his Shifting Balance Theory; Wrights Shifting Balance Theory and Factors Affecting the Probability of Peak Shifts; PART III: Applications: Microevolutionary Dynamics, Quantitative Genetics, and Population Biology; Fluctuating Selection and Dynamic Adaptive Landscapes; The Adaptive Landscape in Sexual Selection Research; Analysing and Comparing the Geometry of Individual Fitness Surfaces; Adaptive Accuracy and Adaptive Landscapes; Empirical Insights into Adaptive Landscapes from Bacterial Experimental Evolution; How Humans Influence Evolution on Adaptive Landscapes; PART IV: Speciation and Macroevolution; Adaptive Landscapes and Macroevolutionary Dynamics; Adaptive Dynamics: a Framework for Modelling the Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics of Quantitative Traits; Adaptive Landscapes, Evolution, and the Fossil Record; PART V: Development, Form, and Function; Mimicry, Saltational Evolution, and the Crossing of Fitness Valleys; High-dimensional Adaptive Landscapes Facilitate Evolutionary Innovation; Phenotype Landscapes, Adaptive Landscapes, and the Evolution of Development; PART VI: Concluding Remarks; The Past, the Present, and the Future of the Adaptive Landscape; Index;
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