40 Years of Evolution (eBook)

Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition

Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26323-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A new edition of Peter and Rosemary Grant's classic account of their groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin's finches40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural selection. In this now-legendary study, renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant draw on a vast and unparalleled range of ecological, behavioral, and genetic data to continuously measure changes in finch populations over a period of four decades on the small island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos archipelago. In the years since the book's publication, the field of genomics has developed greatly. In this newly revised edition of 40 Years of Evolution, the Grants combine the results of their historic field study with genomic analyses of their primary findings, resolve unanswered questions from the field, and provide invaluable insights into the genetic basis of beak and body size variation and the history of this iconic adaptive radiation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 185 b/w illus. 21 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Schlagworte: Adaptive • adults • alleles • Analysis • Archipelago • Backcrosses • barrier • beak • Beak depth • Beak dimensions • Beak length • Beak traits • Beak width • Bird lineage • Birds • Boag grant • Breeding population • Cactus • Colonization • Competition • Daphne • Daphne finches • diets • Directional selection • divergence • Ecological • Ecological evolutionary • Effects inbreeding • Evolutionary • evolutionary change • Females • finches • Finch species • Fitness • fledglings • Food • Food supply • fortis • Fortis beak • Fortis fuliginosa • Fortis magnirostris • Fortis population • Fortis scandens • Fuliginosa • Fuliginosa scandens • Gene exchange • genes • Genetic • Genetic correlations • genetic variation • Habitat • Heritability • Heritable • Heritable variation • Hybridization • Hybrids • Hybrids backcrosses • hypothesis • Immigrants • introgression • Introgressive • Introgressive hybridization • Island • Isolation • lineage • Magnirostris • Males • Morphological • morphological traits • morphological variation • Morphology • Mortality • observations • Opuntia • parental • Parental species • Parents • phenotypic • Radiation • rainfall • recruits • Reproductive • reproductive isolation • Santa Cruz • Scandens • Scandens fortis • Season • seeds • species • Species fortis • standard deviation • traits • Tribulus
• ISBN-10: 0-691-26323-X / 069126323X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-26323-6 / 9780691263236