Code: 04527892

Pillars of Evolution

Name: Pillars of Evolution
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04527892
Price: 200.36 EUR
Availability: BackOrder

by Douglas W. Morris, Per Lundberg

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011
More about this

200.36 €

Print on demand
Shipping in 17 - 26 days

Add to wishlist

Lektüre: Kopiervorlagen
20.02 € -4 %
Buy
Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity
77.38 €
Buy
Self's Murder
11.66 € -18 %
Pre-order
Rewriting India
46.79 €
Buy
Domain of Logic According to Saint Thomas Aquinas
109.99 €
Buy
Therapeutic Use of Child's Play
240.71 €
Buy
meaning of arts for brands
39.24 € -1 %
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

You get 504 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new to the study of evolution will find a refreshing new insight that establishes evolutionary biology as a rigorous and predictive science, whilst practicing biologists will discover a provocative book that challenges traditional approaches. The book begins by leading readers through the mechanics of heredity, reproduction, movement, survival, and development. With that framework in place, it then explores the numerous ways that traits emerge from the interactions between genetics, development, and the environment. The key message is that adaptive changes in traits (and their underlying allelic frequencies) evolve through the traits' functions and their connection with fitness. The complex mappings from genes-to-traits-to-fitness are characterized in the structure of evolution. A single "structure matrix" describes why individuals vary in the values of adaptive traits, their ability to perform the function of those traits, and in the fitness they accrue. Fitness depends on how organisms interact with and perceive their environment in time and space. These relationships are made explicit in spatial, temporal, and organizational scale that also sets the stage for the crucially important role that ecology always plays in evolution. The ecological hallmarks of density- and frequency-dependent interactions allow the authors to explore new and exciting insights into evolution's dynamics. The theories and principles are then brought together in a final synthesis on adaptation. The book's unique approach unites genetic, development, and environmental influences into a single comprehensive treatment of the eco-evolutionary process.