Analysis of Evolutionary Processes
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A01=Fabio Dercole
A01=Sergio Rinaldi
Adaptation
Adaptive radiation
Allele
Allopatric speciation
Attractor
Author_Fabio Dercole
Author_Sergio Rinaldi
Bifurcation diagram
Bifurcation theory
Birth process
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Charles Darwin
Chromosome
Coevolution
Darwinism
Development economics
Directional selection
Disruptive selection
Dynamical system
Ecology
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Emergence
Endogenous growth theory
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Evolution
Evolution of sexual reproduction
Evolutionary dynamics
Evolutionary game theory
Evolutionary suicide
Experimental evolution
Frequency-dependent selection
Genetic algorithm
Genetic drift
Genetic structure
Genetic variability
Genetic variance
Genotype
Group selection
Hopf bifurcation
Hybrid speciation
Initial condition
Kin selection
Lamarckism
Limit cycle
Mendelian inheritance
Mutualism (biology)
Natural selection
Organism
Outcome (probability)
Parameter
Parameter space
Parapatric speciation
Phenomenological model
Phenotype
Phenotypic trait
Phylogenetic tree
Population cycle
Population dynamics
Population genetics
Predation
Probability
Quantitative genetics
Replicator equation
Reproductive success
Saddle-node bifurcation
Sexual selection
Sociocultural evolution
Speciation
Stochastic
Stochastic simulation
Sympatric speciation
Technological change
Technology
The Evolution of Cooperation
Product details
- ISBN 9780691120065
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Quantitative approaches to evolutionary biology traditionally consider evolutionary change in isolation from an important pressure in natural selection: the demography of coevolving populations. In Analysis of Evolutionary Processes, Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi have written the first comprehensive book on Adaptive Dynamics (AD), a quantitative modeling approach that explicitly links evolutionary changes to demographic ones. The book shows how the so-called AD canonical equation can answer questions of paramount interest in biology, engineering, and the social sciences, especially economics. After introducing the basics of evolutionary processes and classifying available modeling approaches, Dercole and Rinaldi give a detailed presentation of the derivation of the AD canonical equation, an ordinary differential equation that focuses on evolutionary processes driven by rare and small innovations. The authors then look at important features of evolutionary dynamics as viewed through the lens of AD.
They present their discovery of the first chaotic evolutionary attractor, which calls into question the common view that coevolution produces exquisitely harmonious adaptations between species. And, opening up potential new lines of research by providing the first application of AD to economics, they show how AD can explain the emergence of technological variety. Analysis of Evolutionary Processes will interest anyone looking for a self-contained treatment of AD for self-study or teaching, including graduate students and researchers in mathematical and theoretical biology, applied mathematics, and theoretical economics.
Fabio Dercole is assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Sergio Rinaldi is professor of system theory at Politecnico di Milano and holds an appointment with the IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program. He is the coauthor of "Positive Linear Systems: Theory and Applications" and "Modeling and Control of River Quality", among other volumes.
