Natural Selection in the Wild (eBook)

John A. Endler (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2020
354 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20951-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of John Endler's book. In it, he discusses the methods and problems involved in the demonstration and measurement of natural selection, presents the critical evidence for its existence, and places it in an evolutionary perspective. Professor Endler finds that there are a remarkable number of direct demonstrations of selection in a wide variety of animals and plants. The distribution of observed magnitudes of selection in natural populations is surprisingly broad, and it overlaps extensively the range of values found in artificial selection. He argues that the common assumption that selection is usually weak in natural populations is no longer tenable, but that natural selection is only one component of the process of evolution; natural selection can explain the change of frequencies of variants, but not their origins.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Schlagworte: absolute fitness • Adaptation • Adaptation and Natural Selection • adaptive Radiation • Allele • Analysis of covariance • Animal breeding • artificial selection • backcrossing • Batesian mimicry • Behavior • Behavioral Ecology • cause and causal relationships • character displacement • clines • Cohort Study • Color patterns • covariance effects • density-dependent selection • Developmental Effects • Directionality (molecular biology) • Directional selection • disruptive selection • ecological niche • Ecology • ecology, effects of • epistasis • Equilibrium • erosion analogy • estimation • Ethology • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary dynamics • Extrapolation • Fecundity • Field Experiment • Fisher's Exact Test • Fitness (biology) • Fitness model (network theory) • fossil data • founder effect • frequency-dependent selection • F-Test • function and design • Gametic phase • Gene–environment interaction • Gene Flow • Genetic admixture • genetic correlation • genetic distance • Genetic divergence • genetic drift • genetic variability • genetic variance • genetic variation • Genotype • Genotype frequency • group selection • haplodiploidy • Hardy–Weinberg principle • heredity • Heritability • Hypothetical species • Johnson, Samuel, quotations • laboratory populations • Least Squares • lifetime fitness • Linkage Disequilibrium • macroevolution • mating • Meiotic drive • mimicry • morphological traits • Müllerian mimicry • Muller's ratchet • mutants and mutation • mutation rate • Mutualism (biology) • natural logarithm • Natural selection • null hypothesis • On the Origin of Species • origin of alkies and variants • Orthogenesis • Outcome (probability) • parasitism • Parthenogenesis • pesticide resistance • Phenotype • Phenotypic plasticity • Phenotypic trait • Plant Breeding • Pleiotropy • Polygene • Polymorphism (biology) • Population Genetics • predation • Prediction • Probability • Quantitative genetics • quantitative trait locus • Rare Events • Rate of evolution • sampling error • Selection coefficient • Sexual Selection • Speciation • stabilizing selection • statistical significance • Stepwise regression • sympatry • tautology • Taxon • threshold model • Trait Theory • Transplant experiment • Truncation selection • Unit of selection • Vegetative reproduction • Vestigiality • Wahlund effect • Zooxanthellae
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20951-0 / 0691209510
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20951-7 / 9780691209517