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Two centuries of Darwin /
"Two Centuries of Darwin is the outgrowth of an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences on January 16-17, 2009. In the chapters of this book, leading evolutionary biologists and science historians reflect upon and commemorate the Darwinian Revolution. They ca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
National Academy of Sciences,
2009.
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| Colección: | In the light of evolution ;
v. III. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Natural selection, or adaptation to nature. Natural selection in action during speciation / Sara Via
- Adaptive radiations : from field to genomic studies / Scott A. Hodges and Nathan J. Dereig
- Genetics and ecological speciation / Dolph Schluter and Gina L. Conte
- Cascades of convergent evolution : the corresponding evolutionary histories of euglenozoans and dinoflagellates / Julius Lukeš, Brian S. Leander, and Patrick J. Keeling
- Part II. Artificial selection, or adaptation to human demands. From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication / Carlos A. Driscoll, David W. Macdonald, and Stephen J. O'Brien
- Tracking footprints of maize domestication and evidence for a massive selective sweep on chromosome 10 / Feng Tian, Natalie M. Stevens, and Edward S. Buckler IV
- Human-induced evolution caused by unnatural selection through harvest of wild animals / Fred W. Allendorf and Jeffrey J. Hard
- In the light of directed evolution : pathways of adaptive protein evolution / Jesse D. Bloom and Frances H. Arnold
- Part III. Sexual selection, or adaptation to mating demands. Mate choice and sexual selection : what have we learned since Darwin? / Adam G. Jones and Nicholas L. Ratterman
- Sexual selection and mating systems / Stephen M. Shuster
- Reproductive decisions under ecological constraints : it's about time / Patricia Adair Gowaty and Stephen P. Hubbell
- Postcopulatory sexual selection : Darwin's omission and its consequences / William G. Eberhard
- Part IV. The Darwinian legacy, 150 years later. Darwin and the scientific method / Francisco J. Ayala
- The Darwinian revolution : rethinking its meaning and significance / Michael Ruse
- Did Darwin write 'the Origin' backwards? / Elliott Sober
- Darwin's place in the history of thought : a reevaluation / Robert J. Richards
- Darwin's "Strange inversion of reasoning" / Daniel Dennett.