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Adaptation

Title
Adaptation / edited by Michael R. Rose, George V. Lauder.
Publication
San Diego : Academic Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Rose, Michael R. (Michael Robertson), 1955-
  • Lauder, George V.
Description
xiii, 511 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Post-Spandrel Adaptationism / Michael R. Rose and George V. Lauder -- Ch. 1. Historical Development of the Concept of Adaptation / Ron Amundson -- Ch. 2. The Argument from Design / George V. Lauder -- Ch. 3. Optimization and Adaptation / Jon Seger and J. William Stubblefield -- Ch. 4. Genes and Adaptation: A Pocket Guide to the Theory / Mark Kirkpatrick -- Ch. 5. Testing Adaptation Using Phenotypic Manipulations / Barry Sinervo and Alexandra L. Basolo -- Ch. 6. Phylogenetic Systematics of Adaptation / Allan Larson and Jonathan B. Losos -- Ch. 7. Laboratory Evolution: The Experimental Wonderland and the Cheshire Cat Syndrome / Michael R. Rose, Theodore J. Nusbaum and Adam K. Chippindale -- Ch. 8. The Empirical Study of Adaptation in Natural Populations / David Reznick and Joseph Travis -- Ch. 9. Molecular Population Genetics of Adaptation / Richard R. Hudson -- Ch. 10. Paleontological Data and the Study of Adaptation / Michael J. Novacek --
  • Ch. 11. Adaptations of Clades: Resistance and Response / Geerat J. Vermeij -- Ch. 12. Adaptation in Subdivided Populations: Kin Selection and Interdemic Selection / Michael J. Wade -- Ch. 13. Adaptation and Selection of Genomic Parasites / Laurence D. Hurst -- Ch. 14. The Design of Natural and Artificial Adaptive Systems / Steven A. Frank.
ISBN
  • 012596420X (hard cover : alk. paper)
  • 0125964218 (paperback : alk. paper)
LCCN
96033932
OCLC
ocm34282501
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries