Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. Experimental evolution deliberately duplicates evolutionary processes—forcing life histories to evolve, producing adaptations to stressful environmental conditions, and generating lineage splitting to create incipient species. This unique volume summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining current techniques and applications, and presenting the field's full range of research—from selection in the laboratory to the manipulation of populations in the wild. It provides work on such key biological problems as the evolution of Darwinian fitness, sexual reproduction, life history, athletic performance, and learning.

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Publisher

University of California Press

Year

2009

Print ISBN

9780520261808

eBook ISBN

9780520944473

Edition

Topic

Biological Sciences

Subtopic

Ecology

Index

Biological Sciences

Cover
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION
1. Darwin's Other Mistake
2. The Importance of Experimental Studies in Evolutionary Biology
3. Modeling Experimental Evolution Using Individual-Based Variance Components Models
PART II: TYPES OF EXPERIMENTALEVOLUTION
4. Experimental Evolution from the Bottom Up
5. Experimental Evolutionary Domestication
6. Long-Term Experimental Evolution and Adaptive Radiation
7. The Experimental Study of Reverse Evolution
8. Field Experiments, Introductions, and Experimental Evolution
PART III: LEVELS OF OBSERVATION IN EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION
9. Fitness, Demography, and Population Dynamics in Laboratory Experiments
10. Laboratory Selection Studies of Life-History Physiology in Insects
11. Behavior in Neurobiology
12. Selection Experiments and Experimental Evolution of Performance and Physiology
13. Through a Glass, Clearly
PART IV: APPLICATIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION
14. Understanding Evolution Through the Phages
15. Experimental Approaches to Studying the Evolution of Animal Form
16. Sexual Exploits in Experimental Evolution
17. Physiological Adaption in Laboratory Environments
18. Evolution of Aging and Late Life
19. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Altruism and the Levels of Selection
20. Laboratory Experiments on Speciation
PART V: CONCLUSION
21. A Critique of Experimental Phylogenetics
22. Laboratory Evolution Meets Catch-22
Index

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