Experimental Evolution
The Making of a Modern Science
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher CRC Press
- Date of Publication 19 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032997681
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages396 pages
- Size 254x178 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 161 Illustrations, black & white; 57 Illustrations, color; 15 Halftones, black & white; 36 Halftones, color; 146 Line drawings, black & white; 21 Line drawings, color; 16 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in natural selection, evolutionary process and insights from approaches not familiar in their own fields, showing how well-designed experiments can be used to test evolutionary theory decisively, with a focus on microbes as ideal subjects for laboratory experiments.
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Experimental Evolution: The Making of a Modern Science connects molecular biology/biochemistry with ecology/evolution to show how molecular mechanisms and ecological processes work together to drive evolutionary change. The book's four-part structure, covering Preliminaries, The Molecular Basis of Fitness, The Ecological Context of Competition, and Cooperation and Conflict, helps those with a background in the molecular sciences to learn about the ecological context of fitness while those trained in ecology and evolution will find segues to the biochemical basis of adaptation. This organization also facilitates outsiders entering the field as it closely follows the biological siloes, separating molecular phenomena from ecological phenomena, while clearly delineating how these levels interact to produce
The book shows how well-designed experiments can be used to test evolutionary theory decisively. The focus is on microbes. Their small size, rapid reproduction in chemically defined environments, ease of manipulation and stability in long-term storage make them ideal subjects for laboratory experiments. Higher organisms make occasional appearances to effect. Rigorous experimental approaches have resolved old controversies, resurrected heretical ideas, and will continue to revitalize and expand the study of natural selection. This book serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in natural selection and the evolutionary process and interested in insights from approaches not familiar within their own fields.
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Part I: Preliminaries
1. Experiments in Evolution
2. Population Growth
3. Estimating Fitness
4. Mutation
Part II. The Molecular Basis of Fitness
5. Adaptive Landscapes
6. Pleiotropy, Epistasis and Constraint
7. Gene Expression and Fitness
8. Directed Evolution
9. Ancient Adaptations and Constraints
10. Fitness Effects of New Mutations
Part III. Competition
11. Classical Selection Theory
12. Competition For One Resource
13. Multiple Resources and Interference
14. Selection in Temporally Variable Environments
15. Competition on Surfaces
16. Long Term Evolution Experiments
Part IV. Cooperation and Conflict
17. Cooperation and Conflict Within Populations
18. Gene Drives
19. Cooperation and Conflict Between Populations
20. Predation
21. A Note on Metapopulations
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