By presenting evolutionary biology as an ongoing research effort, this best-seller aims to help readers think like scientists.
This book presents evolution as a process, emphasizing the interplay between theory, observation, testing, and interpretation. The book conveys the excitement and logic of evolutionary science through the use of real-world applications.
Graduate students and researchers in evolutionary biology can use this book as a reference for data analyses, whereas researchers in bioinformatics interested in evolutionary analyses will learn how to implement these methods in R. The book ...
These are just a few of the questions answered in this comprehensive overview of Bayesian approaches to phylogenetics.
... 192 Drosophila yakuba – Fruit fly species 206 Encephalitozoon intestinalis – Microsporidian fungus species 28 Equus asinus – Donkey 175 Equus caballus – Horse 175, 243–244 Erythrura gouldiae – Gouldian finch 54 Escovopsis sp.
This important book analyses evolutionary approaches to economic policy. Its main purpose is to explore the policy implications of evolutionary economics, in particular of approaches inspired on the one hand...
For undergraduate courses in Evolution By presenting evolutionary biology as a dynamic, ongoing research effort and organising discussions around questions, this best-selling text helps students think like scientists as they learn about ...
Chase, Ivan D., M. Weissburg, and Theodore H. DeWitt. 1988b. “The Vacancy Chain Process: A New Mechanism of Resource ... Chase-Dunn, Christopher, and Kelly M. Mann. 1998. The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Very Small World-System in ...
In Analysis of Evolutionary Processes, Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi have written the first comprehensive book on Adaptive Dynamics (AD), a quantitative modeling approach that explicitly links evolutionary changes to demographic ones.
The Evolution of Life Histories does this by showing that natural selection is the principal underlying force molding life history variation. The book describes in particular the ways in which variation can be analyzed and predicted.