Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species
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Error threshold (evolution)
Evolution
Evolution of dominance
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary dynamics
Evolutionary ecology
Evolutionary radiation
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection
Fisherian runaway
Fitness (biology)
Fitness function
Fitness landscape
Fitness model (network theory)
Founder effect
Frequency-dependent selection
G-test
Gene
Gene flow
Genetic architecture
Genetic association
Genetic distance
Genetic divergence
Genetic drift
Genetic variability
Genetic variation
Genetics and the Origin of Species
Genotype
Genotype frequency
Haplotype
Hybrid (biology)
Hybrid zone
Inbreeding
Linkage disequilibrium
Local adaptation
Mate choice
Mating
Model organism
Modern evolutionary synthesis
Mutation rate
Mutation-selection balance
Natural selection
Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
Neutral network (evolution)
On the Origin of Species
Parapatric speciation
Peripatric speciation
Phenotype
Phenotypic trait
Population ecology
Population genetics
Population size
Probability
Quantitative genetics
Selection coefficient
Sexual selection
Speciation
Speciation (genetic algorithm)
Species diversity
Species-area curve
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- ISBN 9780691119830
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The origin of species has fascinated both biologists and the general public since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Significant progress in understanding the process was achieved in the "modern synthesis," when Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and others reconciled Mendelian genetics with Darwin's natural selection. Although evolutionary biologists have developed significant new theory and data about speciation in the years since the modern synthesis, this book represents the first systematic attempt to summarize and generalize what mathematical models tell us about the dynamics of speciation. Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species presents both an overview of the forty years of previous theoretical research and the author's new results. Sergey Gavrilets uses a unified framework based on the notion of fitness landscapes introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932, generalizing this notion to explore the consequences of the huge dimensionality of fitness landscapes that correspond to biological systems.
In contrast to previous theoretical work, which was based largely on numerical simulations, Gavrilets develops simple mathematical models that allow for analytical investigation and clear interpretation in biological terms. Covering controversial topics, including sympatric speciation and the effects of sexual conflict on speciation, this book builds for the first time a general, quantitative theory for the origin of species.
Sergey Gavrilets is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics at the University of Tennessee. His many scientific articles have appeared in "Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London", and other publications.
