40 Years of Evolution (eBook)
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5130-0 (ISBN)
Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant are both emeritus professors in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. They are the coauthors of How and Why Species Multiply and coeditors of In Search of the Causes of Evolution (both Princeton).
An important look at a groundbreaking forty-year study of Darwin's finchesRenowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galapagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In How and Why Species Multiply, they offered a complete evolutionary history of Darwin's finches since their origin almost three million years ago. Now, in their richly illustrated new book, 40 Years of Evolution, the authors turn their attention to events taking place on a contemporary scale. By continuously tracking finch populations over a period of four decades, they uncover the causes and consequences of significant events leading to evolutionary changes in species.The authors used a vast and unparalleled range of ecological, behavioral, and genetic data-including song recordings, DNA analyses, and feeding and breeding behavior-to measure changes in finch populations on the small island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos archipelago. They find that natural selection happens repeatedly, that finches hybridize and exchange genes rarely, and that they compete for scarce food in times of drought, with the remarkable result that the finch populations today differ significantly in average beak size and shape from those of forty years ago. The authors' most spectacular discovery is the initiation and establishment of a new lineage that now behaves as a new species, differing from others in size, song, and other characteristics. The authors emphasize the immeasurable value of continuous long-term studies of natural populations and of critical opportunities for detecting and understanding rare but significant events.By following the fates of finches for several generations, 40 Years of Evolution offers unparalleled insights into ecological and evolutionary changes in natural environments.
Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant are both emeritus professors in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. They are the coauthors of How and Why Species Multiply and coeditors of In Search of the Causes of Evolution (both Princeton).
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.4.2014 |
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Zusatzinfo | 44 color illus. 129 line illus. 21 tables. |
Verlagsort | Princeton |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
Technik | |
Schlagworte | Adaptation • adaptive Radiation • Allele • Allometry • allopatric speciation • Arthropod • backcrossing • Biology • Biomass (ecology) • bird • breeding season • Bursera • Calculation • Caltrop • character displacement • Charles Darwin • chromosome • Coevolution • Competition • Confidence interval • Daphne Major • darwin's finches • Directional selection • Drought • Dry season • ecological speciation • Ecology • Effective population size • estimation • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary dynamics • female • Ficus • Fitness (biology) • founder effect • Frequency distribution • Gene • gene duplication • Gene Flow • genetic correlation • Genetic divergence • genetic drift • Genetic marker • genetic variance • genetic variation • Genotype • Geospiza • Heritability • High Frequency • Hybrid (biology) • Inbreeding • inference • interspecific competition • introgression • Invasive species • Longevity • Magnirostris • mate choice • Maternal effect • mating • Measurement • Medium ground finch • Mendelian Inheritance • microsatellite • Mutation • Mutation–selection balance • Natural selection • On the Origin of Species • Opuntia • organism • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • Pleiotropy • plumage • Population bottleneck • Population Size • Portulaca • predation • Principal Component Analysis • Probability • Regression Analysis • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Selection coefficient • Sex Ratio • Sexual Dimorphism • Sexual Selection • Small ground finch • Speciation • species • Species problem • statistical significance • sympatry • Taxon • Transgressive segregation • Tribulus • warbler • wet season • year |
ISBN-10 | 1-4008-5130-0 / 1400851300 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-5130-0 / 9781400851300 |
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