Arnold S Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2023
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Name: Arnold S Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2023
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Book:
Title: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
Author: Stevan J. Arnold
Language: angielski
Year: 2023
Subjects: Science & Technology, Biology & Life Sciences, Genetics, Genetics – General and Miscellaneous
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192859396
Total pages: 497
Description:
Evolutionary quantitative genetics (EQG) provides a formal theoretical foundation for quantitatively linking natural selection and genetic variation to the rate and expanse of adaptive evolution. It has become the dominant conceptual framework for interpreting the evolution of quantitative traits in terms of elementary forces (mutation, inheritance, selection, and drift). Despite this success, the relevance of EQG to many biological scenarios remains relatively unappreciated, with numerous fields yet to fully embrace its approach. Part of the reason for this lag is that conceptual advances in EQG have not yet been fully synthesized and made accessible to a wider academic audience. A comprehensive, accessible overview is therefore now timely, and Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics provides this muchneeded synthesis.
The central argument of the book is that an adaptive landscape concept can be used to understand both evolutionary process within lineages and the pattern of adaptive radiations. In particular, it provides a convincing argument that models with a moving adaptive peak carry us further than any other conceptual approach yet devised. Although additive theory holds center stage, the book mentions and references departures from additivity including nonGaussian distributions of allelic effects, dominance, epistasis, maternal effects and phenotypic plasticity.
This accessible, advanced textbook is aimed principally at students (from senior undergraduate to postgraduate) as well as practising scientists in the fields of evolutionary biology, ecology, physiology, functional morphology, developmental biology, comparative biology, paleontology, and beyond who are interested in how adaptive radiations are produced by evolutionary and ecological processes.
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