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Evolution's Wedge
- Competition and the Origins of Diversity
Af: Karin Pfennig, David Pfennig
Engelsk Hardback
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Evolution's Wedge

- Competition and the Origins of Diversity
Af: Karin Pfennig, David Pfennig
Engelsk Hardback
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Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin's emphasis, competition's role in diversification remains controversial and largely underappreciated. In their synthetic and provocative book, evolutionary ecologists David and Karin Pfennig explore competition's role in generating and maintaining biodiversity. The authors discuss how selection can lessen resource competition or costly reproductive interactions by promoting trait evolution through a process known as character displacement. They further describe character displacement's underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms. The authors then consider character displacement's myriad downstream effects, ranging from shaping ecological communities to promoting new traits and new species and even fueling large-scale evolutionary trends. Drawing on numerous studies from natural populations, and written for a broad audience, Evolution's Wedge seeks to inspire future research into character displacement's many implications for ecology and evolution.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780520274181
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0520274180
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Udg. Dato:
25 okt 2012
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
263mm
Højde:
187mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
25 okt 2012
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