The convergent evolution of agriculture in humans and insects / edited by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne, and Peter N. Peregrine,.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schultz, Ted R., editor.

Gawne, Richard, editor.

Peregrine, Peter N. (Peter Neal), 1963- editor.

Series:

Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Origin.

Agriculture.

Domestication.

Insect rearing.

Beneficial insects--Evolution.

Beneficial insects.

Crops--Evolution.

Crops.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge The MIT Press 2022

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An edited collection about the evolution of agriculture in humans and insects"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Bilaterian Animals: An Adaptive Landscape Perspective / George R. McGhee

The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture: A Systematic Comparative Analysis / Peter N. Peregrine

If Group Selection is Weak, What Can Agriculture Learn from Fungus-Farming Insects? / R. Ford Denison

The Sociobiology of Domestication / Duur K. Aanen and Niels P.R. Anten

Lifetime Commitment between Social Insect Families and their Fungal Cultivars Complicates Comparisons with Human Farming / Jacobus J. Boomsma

Fungus-Growing Termites: An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective / Judith Korb

Mycangia Define the Diverse Ambrosia Beetle-Fungus Symbioses / Chase G. Mayers, Thomas C. Harrington, Peter H.W. Biedermann

Agricultural and proto-agricultural symbioses in ants / Ana Ješovnik and Ted R. Schultz

Convergence and Divergence in the Evolution of Agriculture: Plant Farming by Ants / Guillaume Chomicki

Coevolution in the Arable Battlefield: Pathways to Crop Domestication, Cultural Practices and Parasitic Domesticoids / Dorian Q. Fuller and Tim Denham

Convergent Adaptation and Specialization of Eukaryotic Pathogens across Agricultural Systems / Nicole Gerardo

Evaluating Potential Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Phenotypic Change in the Human Skeleton over the Agricultural Transition / Lumila P. Menéndez and Laura T. Buck

Hammond's Law: A Mechanism Governing the Development and Evolution of Form in Domesticated Organisms / Richard Gawne and Kenneth Z. McKenna

The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Fungus-Farming Ants / Ted R. Schultz.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262367578

0262367572

9780262367561

0262367564

OCLC:

1286684146