The Geometry of Evolution
Adaptive Landscapes and Theoretical Morphospaces
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- Author: George R. McGhee, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: September 2012
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- isbn: 9781107407497
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The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines - permeates both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science. The focus of this 2006 book is to demonstrate to the reader that the adaptive landscape concept can be put into actual analytical practice through the usage of theoretical morphospaces - geometric spaces of both existent and non-existent biological form - and to demonstrate the power of the adaptive landscape concept in understanding the process of evolution. The adaptive landscape concept further allows us to take a spatial approach to the concepts of natural selection, evolutionary constraint and evolutionary development. For that reason, this book relies heavily on spatial graphics to convey the concepts developed within these pages, and less so on formal mathematics.
Read more- The adaptive landscape concept allows the user to view an organism's evolutionary trajectory through time, as a journey through the landscape driven by natural selection, and genetic morphological and developmental constraints
- Details all the applications of the adaptive landscape concept in evolutionary biology
- An introductory text that will be of use to advanced undergraduates and graduates of evolutionary biology
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"...provide[s] an excellent overview of the role of theoretical morphospaces and adaptive landscapes in models of growth and form. [He] has done a very good job in bringing all this material together in one book, and I would recommend The Geometry of Evolution to anyone interested in morphogenisis and evolution."
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- Date Published: September 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107407497
- length: 216 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The concept of the adaptive landscape
2. Modelling natural selection in adaptive landscapes
3. Modelling evolutionary phenomena in adaptive landscapes
4. The concept of the theoretical morphospace
5. Analysing the role of adaptive evolution in theoretical morphospaces
6. Analysing evolutionary phenomena in theoretical morphospaces
7. Evolutionary constraint in theoretical morphospace
8. Evolutionary development in theoretical morphospace
9. There is much to be done …
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