Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-437) and index.
Contents:
Macroevolutionary theory / David Jablonski. Part 2: Constitutive Theories. Historicizing the synthesis : critical insights and pivotal moments in the long history of evolutionary theory / Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis ; Philosophy of evolutionary theory : risky inferences of process from pattern / Patrick Forber ; Modeling evolutionary theories / Patrick C. Phillips ; Traits and homology / James O. McInerney ; The nature of species in evolution / Marco J. Nathan and Joel Cracraft ; The tree of life and the episodic evolutionary synthesis / Maureen Kearney ; Situating evolutionary developmental biology in evolutionary theory / Alan C. Love -- Part 2: Constitutive Theories. The inductive theory of natural selection / Steven A. Frank and Gordon A. Fox ; The theory of multilevel selection / Charles Goodnight ; The demography of fitness : life histories and their evolution / Gordon A. Fox and Samuel M. Scheiner ; The theory of ecological specialization / TimotheĢe Poisot ; The theory of the evolution of phenotypic plasticity / Samuel M. Scheiner ; The evolution of sex / Maria E. Orive ; Speciation / Scott V. Edwards, Robin Hopkins, and James Mallet ; The theory of evolutionary biogeography / Rosemary G. Gillespie, Jun Y. Lim, and Andrew J. Rominger ; Macroevolutionary theory / David Jablonski.
Summary:
"Evolutionary theory has come a long way since the days of Charles Darwin. Today, evolutionary biologists and influenced by such concepts as plate tectonics, chromosomes and DNA as the material of inheritance, epigenetics, and much else that wasn't known to Darwin and his contemporaries. The goal of this book is to explore and develop a modern theoretical framework for the field. To that end, the book is divided into two sections. The first examines topics that cross multiple areas of evolution theory, and the second section examines the strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in those areas."-- Provided by publisher.
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