Natural Selection in the Wild. (MPB-21), Volume 21 / / John A. Endler.
Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of John Endler's book. In it, he discusses th...
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Endler, John A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Natural Selection in the Wild. (MPB-21), Volume 21 / John A. Endler. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©1986 1 online resource (354 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Monographs in Population Biology ; 101 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of John Endler's book. In it, he discusses the methods and problems involved in the demonstration and measurement of natural selection, presents the critical evidence for its existence, and places it in an evolutionary perspective. Professor Endler finds that there are a remarkable number of direct demonstrations of selection in a wide variety of animals and plants. The distribution of observed magnitudes of selection in natural populations is surprisingly broad, and it overlaps extensively the range of values found in artificial selection. He argues that the common assumption that selection is usually weak in natural populations is no longer tenable, but that natural selection is only one component of the process of evolution; natural selection can explain the change of frequencies of variants, but not their origins. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022) Natural selection. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. bisacsh Johnson, Samuel, "ations. absolute fitness. artificial selection. behavior. cause and causal relationships. clines. color patterns. covariance effects. density-dependent selection. developmental effects. ecology, effects of. equilibrium. erosion analogy. fossil data. frequency-dependent selection. function and design. laboratory populations. lifetime fitness. morphological traits. mutants and mutation. origin of alkies and variants. rare events. stabilizing selection. tautology. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Gap Years 9783110784237 https://doi.org/10.12987/9780691209517?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691209517 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691209517/original |
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