Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species (MPB-41) / / Sergey Gavrilets.

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• VerfasserIn: Gavrilets, Sergey,
• MitwirkendeR: Horn, Henry S.,; Levin, Simon A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Population Biology ; 88
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The origin of species has fascinated both biologists and the general public since the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Significant progress in understanding the process was achieved in the "modern synthesis," when Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and others reconciled Mendelian genetics with Darwin's natural selection. Although evolutionary biologists have developed significant new theory and data about speciation in the years since the modern synthesis, this book represents the first systematic attempt to summarize and generalize what mathematical models tell us about the dynamics of speciation. Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species presents both an overview of the forty years of previous theoretical research and the author's new results. Sergey Gavrilets uses a unified framework based on the notion of fitness landscapes introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932, generalizing this notion to explore the consequences of the huge dimensionality of fitness landscapes that correspond to biological systems. In contrast to previous theoretical work, which was based largely on numerical simulations, Gavrilets develops simple mathematical models that allow for analytical investigation and clear interpretation in biological terms. Covering controversial topics, including sympatric speciation and the effects of sexual conflict on speciation, this book builds for the first time a general, quantitative theory for the origin of species.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Mathematical Symbols -- Common Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Part I. Fitness Landscapes -- Chapter Two. Fitness Landscapes -- Chapter Three. Steps toward Speciation on Rugged Fitness Landscapes -- Chapter Four. Nearly Neutral Networks and Holey Fitness Landscapes -- Part II. The Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller Model -- Chapter Five. Speciation in the Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller Model -- Chapter Six. Multidimensional Generalizations of the BDM Model -- Chapter Seven. Spatial Patterns in the BDM Model -- Part III. Speciation Via the Joint Action of Disruptive Natural Selection and Nonrandom Mating -- Chapter Eight. Maintenance of Genetic Variation under Disruptive Natural Selection -- Chapter Nine. Evolution of Nonrandom Mating and Fertilization -- Chapter Ten. Interaction of Disruptive Selection and Nonrandom Mating -- Chapter Eleven. General Conclusions -- References -- Index -- Monographs in Population Biology