Evolution From Molecules to Ecosystems

The book addresses many issues in the study of evolution where important advances have recently taken place and provides a sampler of the diversity of questions and research approaches that constitute the modern study of evolution. More advanced and up-to-date than currently available textbooks, it will appeal to students and professional researchers throughout the life sciences.

Foreword

ix

Richard E. Lenski

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Contributors

xv

PART I The genetic machinery of evolution

1

(66)

Near neutrality and its implications for evolution

3

(8)

Tomoko Ohta

Inferring the action of natural selection from DNA sequence comparisons: data from Drosophila

11

(9)

Montserrat Aguade

Julio Rozas

Carmen Segarra

Rates and effects of deleterious mutations and their evolutionary consequences

20

(13)

Aurora Garcia-Dorado

Carlos Lopez-Fanjul

Armando Caballero

Gene duplication and evolution

33

(15)

Michael Lynch

The evolution of gene regulation: approaches and implications

48

(11)

Casey M. Bergman

Nipam H. Patel

Genomics and evolution: the path ahead

59

(8)

Fernando Gonzalez-Candelas

Julie C. Ho

Alexandra M. Casa

Stephen Kresovich

PART II Molecular variation and evolution

67

(40)

The evolution of virulence in AIDS viruses

69

(13)

Edward C. Holmes

Evolution and population structure of parasitic protozoa: the Plasmodium model

82

(12)

Stephen M. Rich

Francisco J. Ayala

The evolution of endosymbiosis in insects

94

(13)

Roeland C. H. J. van Ham

Andres Moya

Amparo Latorre

PART III The ecological and biogeographic context of evolutionary change

107

(64)

Evolutionary ecology: natural selection in freshwater systems

109

(13)

Winfried Lampert

Evolutionary and ecological genetics of cyclical parthenogens

122

(13)

Luc De Meester

Africa Gomez

Jean-Christophe Simon

The timing of sex in cyclically parthenogenetic rotifers

135

(12)

Manuel Serra

Terry W. Snell

Charles E. King

From ecosystems to molecules: cascading effects of habitat persistence on dispersal strategies and the genetic structure of populations

147

(10)

Robert F. Denno

Merrill A. Peterson

Using molecules to understand the distribution of animal and plant diversity

157

(14)

Godfrey M. Hewitt

PART IV Speciation and major evolutionary events

171

(58)

Allopatric speciation: not so simple after all

173

(9)

Menno Schilthuizen

Bronwen Scott

Introgression and hybrid speciation via transposition

182

(13)

Antonio Fontdevila

Cooperation and conflict during the unicellular--multicellular and prokaryotic--eukaryotic transitions

195

(14)

Richard E. Michod

Aurora M. Nedelcu

Molecular evidence on the origin of and the phylogenetic relationships among the major groups of vertebrates

209

(9)

Rafael Zardoya

Axel Meyer

Mass extinctions and evolutionary radiations

218

(11)

Douglas H. Erwin

PART V Behavior, evolution, and human affairs

229

(51)

Play: how evolution can explain the most mysterious behavior of all

231

(16)

Gordon M. Burghardt

The evolutionary psychology of human physical attraction and attractiveness

247

(13)

Randy Thornhill

Steven W. Gangestad

Genome views on human evolution

260

(12)

Jaume Bertranpetit

Francesc Calafell

Could there be a Darwinian account of human creativity?

272

(8)

Daniel C. Dennett

Glossary

280

(10)

References

290

(33)

Index

323

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Evolution From Molecules to Ecosystems

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