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Adaptation and Natural Selection
Adaptive radiation
Allele
Animal breeding
Author_John A. Endler
Behavioral ecology
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Character displacement
Directional selection
Disruptive selection
Ecology
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Estimation
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary dynamics
F-test
Field experiment
Fitness (biology)
Fitness model (network theory)
Founder effect
Gene flow
Gene-environment interaction
Genetic admixture
Genetic distance
Genetic divergence
Genetic drift
Genetic variability
Genetic variance
Genetic variation
Genotype
Genotype frequency
Group selection
Haplodiploidy
Hardy-Weinberg principle
Heredity
Hypothetical species
Linkage disequilibrium
Meiotic drive
Mimicry
Muller's ratchet
Mullerian mimicry
Mutation rate
Natural logarithm
Natural selection
On the Origin of Species
Orthogenesis
Parasitism
Pesticide resistance
Phenotype
Phenotypic trait
Plant breeding
Polygene
Polymorphism (biology)
Population genetics
Predation
Prediction
Probability
Quantitative genetics
Quantitative trait locus
Rate of evolution
Selection coefficient
Sexual selection
Speciation
Statistical significance
Stepwise regression
Sympatry
Threshold model
Truncation selection
Unit of selection
Vestigiality
Wahlund effect
Zooxanthellae
Product details
- ISBN 9780691083872
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 1986
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of John Endler's book. In it, he discusses the methods and problems involved in the demonstration and measurement of natural selection, presents the critical evidence for its existence, and places it in an evolutionary perspective. Professor Endler finds that there are a remarkable number of direct demonstrations of selection in a wide variety of animals and plants. The distribution of observed magnitudes of selection in natural populations is surprisingly broad, and it overlaps extensively the range of values found in artificial selection. He argues that the common assumption that selection is usually weak in natural populations is no longer tenable, but that natural selection is only one component of the process of evolution; natural selection can explain the change of frequencies of variants, but not their origins.
