Oxford surveys in evolutionary biology. Volume 8 / edited by Douglas Futuyma, Janis Antonovics.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Futuyma, Douglas, editor.

Antonovics, Janis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks, and outlines progress in evolutionary studies.

Contents:

Preface; Contents; List of contributors; Controversies in retrospect; Sewall Wright: gene interaction and the Shifting Balance Theory; Coevolution among competitors; DNA variation in humans and its implications for human evolution; Evolutionary studies in cultivated rice and its wild relatives; The theoretical population genetics of autopolyploidy; A causal analysis of stages in allopatric speciation; Inferences from allometry and fossils: dwarfing of elephants on islands; Morphology, the study of form and function, in modern evolutionary biology; Symbiosis in evolution; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 13, 2016).

ISBN:

1-280-44249-2

9786610442492

1-4237-3771-7

0-19-536041-9

1-60129-891-9

OCLC:

475958400