Urban evolutionary biology /

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Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12684807
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Other authors / contributors:Szulkin, Marta, editor.
Munshi-South, Jason, editor.
Charmantier, Anne, editor.
ISBN:9780191873843 (ebook) : No price
Notes:Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2020).
Summary:'Urban Evolutionary Biology' fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. Urbanisation offers a great range of opportunities to examine evolutionary processes because of the radically altered and easily quantifiable urban habitat, and the large number of cities worldwide, enabling rigorous, replicated tests of evolutionary hypotheses. Urban populations are increasingly exhibiting both neutral and adaptive evolutionary changes at levels ranging from genotypes to phenotypes. The novelty of urban evolutionary biology is that these changes are driven by the cities we have built, including effects of infrastructure, pollution, and social characteristics of our urban neighbourhoods.
Target Audience:Specialized.
Other form:Print version : 9780198836841