Adaptation /

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Author / Creator:Rose, Michael R. (Michael Robertson), 1955-
Imprint:San Diego : Academic Press, c1996.
Description:xiii, 511 p.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2465081
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Other authors / contributors:Lauder, George V.
ISBN:012596420X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.