Analysis of evolutionary processes : the adaptive dynamics approach and its applications /

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Author / Creator:Dercole, Fabio.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Description:xv, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology
Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6828778
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Other authors / contributors:Rinaldi, S. (Sergio), 1940-
ISBN:9780691120065 (alk. paper)
0691120064 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-323) and index.
Summary:Quantitative approaches to evolutionary biology traditionally consider evolutionary change in isolation from an important pressure in natural selection: the demography of coevolving populations. This text covers Adaptive Dynamics, a quantitative modeling approach that explicitly links evolutionary changes to demographic ones.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Evolutionary Processes
  • 1.1. Origins of Evolutionary Theory
  • 1.2. Genotypes and Phenotypes
  • 1.3. Mutations
  • 1.4. Selection
  • 1.5. Evolution
  • 1.6. The Red Queen Hypothesis
  • 1.7. The Emergence of Diversity
  • 1.8. Evolutionary Extinction
  • 1.9. Examples
  • Chapter 2. Modeling Approaches
  • 2.1. Overview
  • 2.2. Population Genetics
  • 2.3. Individual-based Evolutionary Models
  • 2.4. Quantitative Genetics
  • 2.5. Evolutionary Game Theory
  • 2.6. Replicator Dynamics
  • 2.7. Fitness Landscapes
  • 2.8. Adaptive Dynamics
  • 2.9. A Comparative Analysis
  • Chapter 3. The Canonical Equation of Adaptive Dynamics
  • 3.1. The Evolving Community
  • 3.2. The Resident-Mutant Model
  • 3.3. The Example of Resource-Consumer Communities
  • 3.4. Does Invasion Imply Substitution?
  • 3.5. The AD Canonical Equation
  • 3.6. Evolutionary State Portraits
  • 3.7. Evolutionary Branching
  • 3.8. The Role of Bifurcation Analysis
  • 3.9. What Should We Expect from the AD Canonical Equation
  • Chapter 4. Evolutionary Branching and the Origin of Diversity
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. A Market Model and Its AD Canonical Equation
  • 4.3. A Simple Example of Technological Branching
  • 4.4. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Chapter 5. Multiple Attractors and Cyclic Evolutionary Regimes
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. A Model of Resource-Consumer Coevolution
  • 5.3. The Catalog of Evolutionary Scenarios
  • 5.4. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Chapter 6. Catastrophes of Evolutionary Regimes
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. A Model for the Evolution of Cooperation
  • 6.3. Catastrophic Disappearance of Evolutionary Attractors
  • 6.4. Evolutionary Branching and the Origin of Cheaters
  • 6.5. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Chapter 7. Branching-Extinction Evolutionary Cycles
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. A Model of Cannibalistic Demographic Interactions
  • 7.3. Coevolution of Dwarfs and Giants
  • 7.4. The Branching-Extinction Evolutionary Cycle
  • 7.5. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Chapter 8. Demographic Bistability and Evolutionary Reversals
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Biological Background
  • 8.3. Asymmetric Competition and the Occurrence of Evolutionary Reversals
  • 8.4. Slow-Fast Approximation of the AD Canonical Equation
  • 8.5. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Chapter 9. Slow-Fast Populations Dynamics and Evolutionary Ridges
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Biological Background
  • 9.3. The AD Canonical Equation for General Demographic Attractors
  • 9.4. Evolutionary Sliding and Pseudo-equilibria
  • 9.5. Results and Discussion
  • 9.6. Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 10. The First Example of Evolutionary Chaos
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. A Tritrophic Food Chain Model and Its AD Canonical Equation
  • 10.3. The Chaotic Evolutionary Attractor
  • 10.4. Feigenbaum Cascade of Period-doubling Bifurcations
  • 10.5. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Appendix A. Second-order Dynamical Systems and Their Bifurcations
  • A.1. Dynamical Systems and State Portraits
  • A.2. Structural Stability
  • A.3. Bifurcations as Collisions
  • A.4. Local Bifurcations
  • A.5. Global Bifurcations
  • A.6. Catastrophes, Hysteresis, and Cusp
  • A.7. Extinction Bifurcations
  • A.8. Numerical Methods and Software Packages
  • Appendix B. The Invasion Implies Substitution Theorem
  • Appendix C. The Probability of Escaping Accidental Extinction
  • Appendix D. The Branching Conditions
  • Bibliography
  • Index