Evolutionary Biology
- ISBN-10
- 1468480960
- ISBN-13
- 9781468480962
- Series
- Evolutionary Biology
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 452
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05-03
- Publisher
- Springer
- Authors
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, Max K. Hecht, William C. Steere
Description
1 On Some Fundamental Concepts of Darwinian Biology.- Vitalism, Mechanism, and Compositionism.- Adaptedness and Adaptation.- Adaptedness to Survive and to Reproduce.- Adaptability.- Evolutionary Plasticity.- The Problem of Quantification of Adaptedness.- Darwinian Fitness.- Varieties of Natural Selection.- Darwinian Fitness and Adaptedness.- Evolutionary Opportunism and Adaptive Radiation.- Progressive Evolution.- References.- 2 Cave Ecology and the Evolution of Troglobites.- Animal Life in Caves.- The Cave Ecosystem.- Regressive Evolution in Cave Animals.- Speciation and Adaptation in Troglob.
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