Evolution Since Darwin - Bell, Michael A

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Résumé :
Evolution since Darwin: The First 150 Years comprises twenty-two chapters and eight shorter commentaries that emerged from a symposium held in November 2009 at Stony Brook University. Thirty-nine authors from twenty-two universities and two museums in five countries wrote on areas of evolutionary biology and related topics on which their research focuses. Their essays cover the history of evolutionary biology, populations, genes and genomes, evolution of form, adaptation and speciation, diversification and phylogeny, paleobiology, human cultural and biological evolution, and applied evolution. The volume is intended to summarize progress in major areas of research in evolutionary biology since Darwin, to review the current state of knowledge and active research in those areas, and to look toward the future of the broader field....

Biographie:

• I. Evolution since Darwin


• CHAPTER 1. Douglas J. Futuyma. Evolutionary Biology: 150 Years of Progress


• CHAPTER 2. Peter J. Bowler. Rethinking Darwin?EUR s Position in the History of Science


• Commentary 1. Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis. Where Are We? Historical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century


• II. Populations, Genes, and Genomes


• CHAPTER 3. Roberta L. Millstein. The Concepts of ?EUR Population?EUR and ?EUR Metapopulation?EUR in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology


• CHAPTER 4. Jianzhi G. Zhang. Evolutionary Genetics: Progresses and Challenges


• CHAPTER 5. John Wakeley. Natural Selection and Coalescent Theory


• CHAPTER 6. Bryan Kolaczkowski and Andrew D. Kern. On the Power of Comparative Genomics: Does Conservation Imply Function?


• Commentary 2. Daniel E. Dykhuizen. The Potential for Microorganisms and Experimental Studies in Evolutionary Biology




• III. The Evolution of Form


• CHAPTER 7. Mark Kirkpatrick. Limits on Rates of Adaptation: Why Is Darwin?EUR s Machine So Slow?


• CHAPTER 8. G??nter P. Wagner. Evolvability: The Missing Piece of the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis


• CHAPTER 9. Gregory A. Wray. Embryos and Evolution: 150 Years of Reciprocal Illumination


• IV. Adaptation and Speciation


• CHAPTER 10. Anurag Agrawal, Jeffrey K. Conner, and Sergio Rasmann. Tradeoffs and Negative Correlations in Evolutionary Ecology


• CHAPTER 11. May Berenbaum and Mary A. Schuler. Elucidating Evolutionary Mechanisms in Plant?EURInsect Interactions: Key Residues as Key Innovations


• CHAPTER 12. Hannah Kokko and Michael D. Jennions. Behavioral Ecology: The Natural History of Evolutionary Theory


• CHAPTER 13. Richard G. Harrison. Understanding the Origin of Species: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?


• Commentary 3. Mark A. McPeek. The Role of Ecology in Evolutionary Biology


• V. Diversity and the Tree of Life


• CHAPTER 14. Antonio Lazcano. The Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Did It All Start in Darwin?EUR s Warm Little Pond?


• Commentary 4. Christopher E. Lane. The Genomic Imprint of Endosymbiosis


• CHAPTER 15. Jonathan B. Losos and D. Luke Mahler. Adaptive Radiation: The Interaction of Ecological Opportunity, Adaptation, and Speciation


• CHAPTER 16. David M. Hillis. Phylogenetic Progress and Applications of the Tree of Life


• CHAPTER 17. Peter J. Wagner. Paleontological Perspectives on Morphological Change


• CHAPTER 18. Michael Foote. The Geological History of Biodiversity


• Commentary 5. Joel Cracraft. Thinking about Diversity and Diversification: What If Biotic History Is Not Equilibrial?




• VI. Human Evolution


• CHAPTER 19. Tim D. White. Human Evolution: How has Darwin Done?


• CHAPTER 20. Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd. The Darwinian Theory of Human Cultural Evolution and Gene-Culture Coevolution




• VII. Applications of Evolutionary Biology


• CHAPTER 21. Fred Gould. Applying Evolutionary Biology: From Retrospective Analysis to Direct Manipulation


• Commentary 6. Charles C. Davis, Erika J. Edwards, and Michael J. Donoghue. A Clade?EUR s-Eye View of Global Clim...

  Sommaire:
  The editors are members of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University. Among them, they have more than 150 years of experience in evolutionary biology. Bell studies the evolution of stickleback fish, ranging from molecules to fossils, and he co-edited The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback. Futuyma is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and author of the textbooks Evolutionary Biology and Evolution. He studies coevolution of insects and plants. Eanes studies the molecular and population genetics of Drosophila and is interested in the interface of metabolism and life history adaptation. Levinton has a long interest in macroevolution, and wrote Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution. He also studies the ecology and evolution of marine and aquatic invertebrates and has authored the textbook Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology and co-edited The Hudson River Estuary.
  
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