The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932. Eighty years later, it has become a central framework in evolutionary quantitative genetics, selection studies in natural populations, and in studies of ecological speciation and adaptive radiations. Recently, the simple concept of adaptive landscapes in two dimensions (genes or traits) has been criticized andseveral new and more sophisticated versions of the original adaptive landscape evolutionary model have been developed in response. No published volume has yet critically discussed the past, present state, and future prospect of the adaptive landscape in evolutionary biology. This volume bringstogether prominent historians of science, philosophers, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, with the aim of discussing the state of the art of the Adaptive Landscape from several different perspectives.

Preface, Erik I. Svensson and Ryan Calsbeek
PART I: Historical Background and Philosophical Perspectives
1. A Shifting Terrain: A Brief History of the Adaptive Landscape, Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper, Jr.
2. Sewall Wright's Adaptive Landscape: Philosophical Reflections on Heuristic Value, Robert A. Skipper, Jr. and Michael R. Dietrich
3. Landscapes, Surfaces and Morphospaces: What are they good for?, Massimo Pigliucci
PART II: Controversies: Fisher's Fundamental Theory Versus Sewall Wright's Shifting Balance Theory
4. Wright's Adaptive Landscape versus Fisher's Fundamental Theorem, Steven A. Frank
5. Wright's Adaptive Landscape: Testing the Predictions of his Shifting Balance Theory, Michael J. Wade
6. Wright's Shifting Balance Theory and Factors Affecting the Probability of Peak Shifts, Charles J. Goodnight
PART III: Applications: Microevolutionary Dynamics, Quantitative Genetics, and Population Biology
7. Fluctuating Selection and Dynamic Adaptive Landscapes, Ryan Calsbeek, Thomas P. Gosden, Shawn R. Kuchta, and Erik I. Svensson
8. The Adaptive Landscape in Sexual Selection Research, Adam G. Jones, Nicholas L. Ratterman, and Kimberly A. Paczolt
9. Analysing and Comparing the Geometry of Individual Fitness Surfaces, Stephen F. Chenoweth, John Hunt, and Howard D. Rundle
10. Adaptive Accuracy and Adaptive Landscapes, Christophe Pelabon, W. Scott Armbruster, Thomas F. Hansen, Geir Bolstad, and Rocio Perez-Barrales
11. Empirical Insights into Adaptive Landscapes from Bacterial Experimental Evolution, Tim F. Cooper
12. How Humans Influence Evolution on Adaptive Landscapes, Andrew P. Hendry, Virginie Millien, Andrew Gonzalez, and Hans C. E. Larsson
PART IV: Speciation and Macroevolution
13. Adaptive Landscapes and Macroevolutionary Dynamics, Thomas F. Hansen
14. Adaptive Dynamics: a Framework for Modelling the Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics of Quantitative Traits, Michael Doebeli
15. Adaptive Landscapes, Evolution, and the Fossil Record, Michael A. Bell
PART V: Development, Form, and Function
16. Mimicry, Saltational Evolution, and the Crossing of Fitness Valleys, Olof Leimar, Birgitta S. Tullberg, and James Mallet
17. High-dimensional Adaptive Landscapes Facilitate Evolutionary Innovation, Andreas Wagner
18. Phenotype Landscapes, Adaptive Landscapes, and the Evolution of Development, Sean H. Rice
PART VI: Concluding Remarks
19. The Past, the Present, and the Future of the Adaptive Landscape, Erik I. Svensson and Ryan Calsbeek
Index