Sex and Evolution (eBook)

George Christopher Williams (Autor)

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2020
210 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20992-0 (ISBN)

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This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that in low-fecundity higher organisms, sexual reproduction is generally maladaptive, and persists because there is no ready means of developing an asexual alternative. The book then considers the evolutionary development of diverse forms of sexuality, such as anisogamy, hermaphroditism. and the evolution of differences between males and females in reproductive strategy. The final two chapters examine the effect of genetic recombination on the evolutionary process itself.

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: Adaptive performance • adaptive Radiation • anisogamy • aphid • aphids • Apomixis • Arachnid • asexual reproduction • Assortative Mating • Charles Darwin • Chromosomal crossover • Cladogenesis • Cnemidophorus • cohort half-life • comparative anatomy • competitive exclusion • competitive exclusion principle • cost of meiosis • courtship • Crow, J. F. • Darwin, C. R. • Darwinism • Dioecy • disruptive selection • Dobzhansky, Th. • Drosophila • ecotype • elms • Emlen, J. M. • Endosperm • epistasis • Eshel, I. • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary developmental biology • Fecundity • Feldman, M. W. • female • Fertilisation • Fission (biology) • Fitness (biology) • fitness, dosage scale • Fitness model (network theory) • frequency-dependent selection • Gamete • Gametophyte • Gene • Gene Flow • Gene Frequency • genetic assimilation • genetic diversity • genetic load • Genetic Recombination • genetic variability • Genotype • Genotype-phenotype distinction • Germ plasm • group selection • Harper, J. L. • heredity • Hermaphrodite • Heterosis • Heterozygote advantage • Hybrid (biology) • Inbreeding depression • introgression • Isogamy • isozyme variants • kin selection • Koehn, R. K. • lamarckism • larva • Levins, R. • Linkage Disequilibrium • lottery analogy • mammals • Masculinity • mate choice • mating • mating call • Mayr, E. • Meiosis • Mendelian Inheritance • model organism • mutation rate • Natural selection • neighborhood breeding group • obligate parasite • Ocean Currents • organism • outcrossing • Oviparity • Panmixia • parasitism • Parental investment • Parthenogenesis • phylogenies, random • Ploidy • Polar Body • Polyembryony • Polymorphism (biology) • Population Genetics • Population Size • Promiscuity • Propagule • Protozoans • Quantitative genetics • Rate of evolution • Reproduction • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Reproductive system • Sebastes • Segregate (taxonomy) • Selection coefficient • selfing • Sex • Sex Ratio • Sexual Dimorphism • sexual reproduction • Sexual Selection • snails • Spawn (biology) • Speciation • species complex • Sperm • Taxon • Territoriality • trematodes • Weismann, A. • Zygote • ZZI (zygote-to-zygote increase)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20992-8 / 0691209928
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20992-0 / 9780691209920