Evolution : from molecules to ecosystems /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | xvi, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford biology Oxford biology readers. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5163840 |
Table of Contents:
- The Genetic Machinery of Evolution
- 1. Near neutrality and its implications for evolution
- 2. Inferring the action of natural selection from DNA sequence comparisons: data from Drosophila
- 3. Rates and effects of deleterious mutations and their evolutionary consequences
- 4. Gene duplication and evolution
- 5. The evolution of gene regulation: approaches and implications
- 6. Genomics and evolution: the path ahead, Gonzalez-Candelas
- Molecular Variation and Evolution
- 7. The evolution of virulence in AIDS viruses
- 8. Evolution and population structure of parasitic protozoa: the Plasmodium model
- 9. The evolution of endosymbiosis in insects
- The Ecological and Biogeographic Context Of Evolutionary Change
- 10. Evolutionary ecology: natural selection in freshwater systems
- 11. Evolutionary and ecological genetics of cyclical parthenogens
- 12. The timing of sex in cyclical parthenogenetic rotifers
- 13. From ecosystems to molecules: cascading effects of habitat persistence on dispersal strategies and the genetic structure of populations
- 14. Using molecules to understand the distribution of animal and plant diversity
- Speciation and Major Evolutionary Events
- 15. Allopatric speciation: not so simple after all
- 16. Introgression and hybrid speciation via transposition
- 17. Cooperation and conflict during the unicellular-multicellular and prokaryotic-eukaryotic transitions
- 18. Molecular evidence on the origin of and the phylogenetic relationships among the major groups of verebrates
- 19. Mass extinctions and evolutionary radiations
- Behavior, Evolution and Human Affairs
- 20. Play: how evolution can explain the most mysterious behavior of all
- 21. The evolutionary psychology of human physical attraction and attractiveness
- 22. Genome views on human evolution
- 23. Could there be a Darwinian account of human creativity?
