Evolution by Natural Selection, Michael, Michaelis

Автор: Kauffman, Stuart A.
Название: The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution
ISBN: 0195079515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195079517
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Описание: This monograph extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. It explains how complex systems, contrary to expectations, can spontaneously exhibit degrees of order.

Автор: Horst Wilkens; Ulrike Strecker
Название: Evolution in the Dark
ISBN: 366257201X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783662572016
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Описание: All these traits are subject to mosaic evolution and exhibit unproportional epistatic gene effects, which play an important role in evolutionary adaptation and improvement. Offering valuable evolutionary insights and supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, this book will appeal to evolutionary and developmental biologists alike.

Автор: Taylor Adrian
Название: Evolutionary Biomechanics
ISBN: 0198566387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198566380
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Описание: Recent research in biomechanics is increasingly revealing a set of special cases where universal physical laws constrain the trajectories and, more controversially, even the endpoints of the evolutionary process. For the first time this book brings together a broad range of examples from the latest research in evolutionary biomechanics to examine this phenomenon.

Автор: Graham Bell
Название: Selection
ISBN: 041205521X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780412055218
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Описание: Describes the process of selection and explains how the nature of the process determines the nature of evolutionary change.

Автор: Dixson Alan F.
Название: Mandrill
ISBN: 1107535123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107535121
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, mandrills are notoriously elusive and have evaded scientific scrutiny for decades. Recent research, synthesised here for the first time, sheds light on mandrill behaviour, reproductive biology and evolution, and allows for explanation of its extreme sexual dimorphism.

Автор: Corning, Peter A. (inst For The Study Of Complex Systems, Usa)
Название: Synergistic selection: how cooperation has shaped evolution and the rise of humankind
ISBN: 9813234601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813234604
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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co-author of (among others) Evolution in Four Dimensions

"Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy." Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, "life on Earth has been a synergistic phenomenon from the get go." Corning also shows how synergy has been a key to human evolution, including the rise of complex modern societies. "Cooperation may have been the vehicle, but synergy was the driver." As we now face a tipping point and another major transition in evolution, Corning offers us a synergy-based road-map to the future. "One of the great take-home lessons from the epic of evolution is that cooperation produces synergy, and synergy is the way forward. The arc of evolution bends toward synergy."

Автор: Rasmus Gronfeldt Winther
Название: Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science: Selected Papers of A. W. F. Edwards with Commentaries
ISBN: 1107111722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107111721
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Описание: A. W. F. Edwards is among the world`s most influential mathematical geneticists and a pioneer of the statistical analysis of phylogeny. This collection of his seminal papers, accompanied by commentary from leading experts, highlights Edwards`s influence on the field, contextualising his contribution and legacy for geneticists, statisticians and historians of science.

Автор: Graham Bell
Название: Selection
ISBN: 1461377390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461377399
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Описание: Thisbookhasbeenwritten tomake a pointand tofulfill a need. Thepoint is that the importance and the distinctiveness of the process of selection have been undervalued by most biologists. There is, consequently, the need for a book that describes the principles of selection in a simple but reasonably comprehensive way. Selection Is a Distinct Kind ofProcess Although we are now well into the second century of Darwinism, the theorythatDarwinand Wallaceannouncedin 1858hasnotyetmademuch progress beyond a small coterie of professional biologists. The reason is thatit isjarringlyunfamiliar toournormalexperienceofhow things come to be. Few ofus would be able to design a light bulb or a lathe, still fewer the computerand itsattendant softwarewithwhich this sentence is being written. But we all have a clear idea of what is meant by "design", and we readily, too readily, transfer this notion to the natural world. A light bulb or a lathe are prefigured in the mind, and constructed according to a plan. It is entirely reasonable to assume that beetles and daisies must be constructed after the same fashion, especially because they are much morecomplicatedthananythingthathumaningenuityhassofarmanaged to devise. There is, however, a second route to complex organization, throughtheselectionofrandomvariantsthatpropagatenearlyexactcopies ofthemselves. Itisofverylittleconsequenceinourdailylives, becauseifis somuchmorelaboriousandexpensivethandeliberatedesign. However, it isanotherwayofconstructingthings. Indeed, sofarasIknow, itistheonly other way of constructing things that we have ever been able to imagine.

Автор: W.J. Etges; M.A. Noor
Название: Genetics of Mate Choice: From Sexual Selection to Sexual Isolation
ISBN: 9401039585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401039581
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Описание: Genetic studies aimed at understanding the origin of species are dominating major scientific journals. This collection of papers discusses burgeoning genetic, evolutionary, and ecological approaches to understanding the origins of mating discrimination and causes of premating reproductive isolation both within and between species.

Автор: Zuk, Marlene (professor In The Department Of Ecology, Evolution And Behavior At The University Of Minnesota Twin Cities) Simmons, Leigh W. (professor
Название: Sexual selection: a very short introduction
ISBN: 0198778759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198778752
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Описание: Sexual selection, Darwin`s other big idea, is the selection for particular traits and behaviours that results from (usually) female choice and male competition. It can produce flamboyant features, such as the peacock`s tail, which would seem to be detrimental to survival. This book explores our understanding of how sexual selection works.

Автор: Sonya Bahar
Название: The Essential Tension
ISBN: 9402414770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402414776
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Описание: 'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one collective unit emerging from the cooperative interactions of its constituent (and mutually competitive) parts has its roots in the ancient world. More recently, it has illuminated studies of animal behavior, and played a controversial role in evolutionary biology. In Part I, the author explores the historical development of the idea of a collectivity in biological systems, from early speculations on the sociology of human crowd behavior, through the mid-twentieth century debates over the role of group selection in evolution, to the notion of the selfish gene. Part II investigates the balance between competition and cooperation in a range of contemporary biological problems, from flocking and swarming to experimental evolution and the evolution of multicellularity. Part III addresses experimental studies of cooperation and competition, as well as controversial ideas such as the evolution of evolvability and Stephen Jay Gould’s suggestion that “spandrels” at one level of selection serve as possible sources of variability for the next higher level. Finally, building on the foundation established in the preceding chapters, the author arrives at a provocative new proposition: as a result of the essential tension between competition and cooperation, multiple levels may be essential in order for evolutionary processes to occur at all.

Автор: Sonya Bahar
Название: The Essential Tension
ISBN: 940241052X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402410525
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Описание: Part III addresses experimental studies of cooperation and competition, as well as controversial ideas such as the evolution of evolvability and Stephen Jay Gould`s suggestion that "spandrels" at one level of selection serve as possible sources of variability for the next higher level.