Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 8: 1991 (Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology)

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This new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks, and outlines progress in evolutionary studies.

Author(s): Douglas Futuyma, Janis Antonovics
Edition: 1
Year: 1992

Language: English
Pages: 416

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
Controversies in retrospect......Page 14
Sewall Wright: gene interaction and the Shifting Balance Theory......Page 48
Coevolution among competitors......Page 76
DNA variation in humans and its implications for human evolution......Page 124
Evolutionary studies in cultivated rice and its wild relatives......Page 148
The theoretical population genetics of autopolyploidy......Page 198
A causal analysis of stages in allopatric speciation......Page 232
Inferences from allometry and fossils: dwarfing of elephants on islands......Page 272
Morphology, the study of form and function, in modern evolutionary biology......Page 302
Symbiosis in evolution......Page 360
B......Page 396
D......Page 397
F......Page 398
H......Page 399
M......Page 400
O......Page 401
P......Page 402
R......Page 403
S......Page 404
X......Page 405