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Evolution since Darwin: The First 150 Years comprises 22 chapters and eight shorter commentaries that emerged from a symposium held in November 2009 at Stony Brook University, USA. Thirty-nine authors from 22 universities and two museums in five countries write on areas of evolutionary biology and related topics on which their research focuses. Their essays cover the history of evolutionary biology, populations, genes and genomes, evolution of form, adaptation and speciation, diversification and phylogeny, paleobiology, human cultural and biological evolution, and applied evolution. The volume summarizes progress in major areas of research in evolutionary biology since Darwin, reviewing the current state of knowledge and active research in those areas, and looking toward the future of the broader field.
| ISBN | 0878934138 | | Pages | 688 | | ISBN13 | 9780878934133
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1203 | | Publisher | Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. | | Published in | Sunderland | | Imprint | Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 178 | | Publication date | 29 Sep 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 576.809 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Contributors | | | | | | Part I Evolution Since Darwin | | 1 | | 1 | | Evolutionary Biology: 150 Years of Progress | | 3 | | 2 | | Rethinking Darwin's Position in the History of Science by Douglas I. Futuyma | | 31 | | | | Commentary One "Where Are We?" Historical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century by Peter J. Bowler | | 49 | | | | Part II Populations, Genes, And Genomes by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis | | 59 | | 3 | | The Concepts of Population and Metapopulation in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis | | 61 | | 4 | | Evolutionary Genetics: Progress and Challenges by Roberta L. Millstein | | 87 | | 5 | | Natural Selection and Coalescent Theory by Jianzhi Zhang | | 119 | | 6 | | On the Power of Comparative Genomics: Does Conservation Imply Function? by John Wakeley | | 151 | | | | Commentary Two The Potential for Microorganisms and Experimental Studies in Evolutionary Biology by Andrew D. Kern | | 169 | | | | Part III The Evolution Of Form by Daniel E. Dykhuizen | | 175 | | 7 | | Rates of Adaptation: Why Is Darwin's Machine So Slow? by Daniel E. Dykhuizen | | 177 | | 8 | | Evolvability: The Missing Piece in the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis by Mark Kirkpatrick | | 197 | | 9 | | Embryos and Evolution: 150 Years of Reciprocal Illumination by Gunter P. Wagner | | 215 | | | | Part IV Adaptation And Speciation by Gregory A. Wray | | 241 | | 10 | | Tradeoffs and Negative Correlations in Evolutionary Ecology by Gregory A. Wray | | 243 | | 11 | | Elucidating Evolutionary Mechanisms in Plant Insect Interactions: Key Residues as Key Innovations by Sergio Rasmann | | 269 | | 12 | | Behavioral Ecology: The Natural History of Evolutionary Theory by Mary A. Schuler | | 291 | | | More... | | |
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