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The geometry of evolution : adaptive landscapes and theoretical morphospaces /
The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines - permeates both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science. The focus of this 2006 book is to demonstrate to t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines - permeates both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science. The focus of this 2006 book is to demonstrate to the reader that the adaptive landscape concept can be put into actual analytical practice through the usage of theoretical morphospaces - geometric spaces of both existent and non-existent biological form - and to demonstrate the power of the adaptive landscape concept in understanding the process of evolution. The adaptive landscape concept further allows us to take a spatial approach to the concepts of natural selection, evolutionary constraint and evolutionary development. For that reason, this book relies heavily on spatial graphics to convey the concepts developed within these pages, and less so on formal mathematics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511261169 0511261160 0511260598 9780511260599 1107164850 9781107164857 1280749172 9781280749179 9786610749171 6610749175 0511259344 9780511259340 0511618360 9780511618369 0511319967 9780511319969 0511259999 9780511259999 |