The adaptive seascape: the mechanism of evolution
Modern evolutionary theory, also known as the modern synthesis, has lately become the subject of much criticism - and yet, David Merrell observes, its critics all too often display an incomplete understanding of the theory and its provenance. In this book, Merrell provides a lucid exposition and cri...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Modern evolutionary theory, also known as the modern synthesis, has lately become the subject of much criticism - and yet, David Merrell observes, its critics all too often display an incomplete understanding of the theory and its provenance. In this book, Merrell provides a lucid exposition and critique of the modern synthetic theory of evolution - its history, its present difficulties, and its future - from the perspective of ecological genetics Based on observational and experimental data, in natural populations of plants and animals studied in the field and in the laboratory, this perspective unravels the hidden and often poorly founded assumptions underlying some of the more troublesome controversies in evolutionary biology today Evolution, Merrell suggests, occurs through many mechanisms, and this pluralism informs his approach to evolutionary problems, which usually have been discussed in extreme, generally unjustifiable dichotomies. Thus, although much of evolution, in accordance with the Darwinian model, is slow and gradual, Merrell makes the case for rapid, even instantaneous large change as well |
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Adaptive Seascape
The Mechanism of Evolution
David J Merrell
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis
London
Contents
Preface ix
1 The Development of Modern Evolutionary Theory 1
Darwin—Mendelism—Johannsen—Population Genetics—
The Modern Synthesis—Further Developments
2 The Factors of Evolution 16
Mutation—Selection—Gene Flow—Generic Drift—
Directional, Random, and Unique Events—Other Factors?
3 The Study of Evolution 23
Individual Traits—The Phenotype—Group Traits
4 Adaptation, Natural Selection, and Fitness 38
Adaptation—Adaptedness, Adaptation, and Adaptability—
The Evolution of DDT Resistance—Natural Selection and
Adaptation—Natural Selection and Fitness
5 Nonadaptive Evolution 50
Chance and Evolution—Chance and Natural Selection —
Factors Enhancing Genetic Variability—Factors Restricting
Genetic Variability—The Evolution of Life Cycles and
Genetic Systems—Genetic Loads
6 Gradual versus Saltational Evolution 63
Darwin, Huxley, and Galton—Biometricians versus
Mendelians—The Population Geneticists—The Modern
Synthesists—Goldschmidt and Gould—Present Views
vi Contents
/ 7 Evolutionary Statics 72
Measuring Variation—Genetic Polymorphism—Balanced
Polymorphism—Heterogeneous Selection Pressures
8 Evolutionary Dynamics 83
The Genetics of Evolution—Gradual Evolution—The Role of
Dominant Genes in Evolution—Industrial Melanism—DDT
Resistance—The Origin of Dominance—The Origin of
Dominance of the Wild Type—The Evolution of Mimicry—
The Evolution of Batesian Mimicry—The Two-Stage Theory
9 Patterns and Modes of Evolution 110
Polytypic Variation—The Nature of Species—Patterns
of Evolution—Modes of Evolution —Evolutionary Rates—
The Molecular Clock—The Genetic System—The Mechanism
of Evolution—The Adaptive Landscape
10 The Adaptive Seascape 137
The Fitness Seascape—Gene Expression during
Development—Variability and Abundance—The Founder
Effect—Homoselection and Heteroselection—
Coadaptation—Hard and Soft Selection—Adaptive Peaks
and Valleys—Adaptation in Leopard Frogs—Polymorphism
in Leopard Frogs
11 Controversies about Evolution 159
Approaches to Evolution—Classical and Balance Theories
of Variation—Adaptive Neutrality—Adaptation and
Molecular Evolution—Molecular and Morphological
Evolution—Cultural Evolution—Evolutionary Complexity—
Group Selection—The Origin of Species
12 Evolutionary Paradoxes 179
Asexuality and Sexuality—The Cost of Males—The Cost of
Meiosis—The Cost of Recombination—Inbreeding
Depression—The Sex Ratio, Parental Investment, and
Reproductive Value—Social Evolution—The Cost of Natural
Selection—Nutnquam Ceteris Paribus
13 Behavior and Evolution 200
The Study of Behavior—Nature and Nurture—Heredity and
Behavior—The Differences between the Sexes—The Biology
Contents vii
of Behavior—Selection and Behavior—The Role of the
Environment—The Evolution of the Eye—Regressive
Evolution—The Biological Environment—Approaches
to the Study of Evolution
14 Where Are We Now? 226
Glossary 233
Bibliography 241
Index 255
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