Introduction: Post-spandrel adaptationism / Michael R. Rose and George V. Lauder -- Historical development of the concept of adaptation / Ron Amundson -- The argument from design / George V. Lauder -- Optimization and adaptation / Jon Seger and J. William Stubblefield -- Genes and adaptation: a pocket guide to the theory / Mark Kirkpatrick -- Testing adaptation using phenotypic manipulations / Barry Sinervo and Alexandra L. Basolo -- Phylogenetic systematics of adaptation / Allan Larson and Jonathan B. Losos -- Laboratory evolution: the experimental wonderland and the cheshire cat syndrome / Michael R. Rose, Theodore J. Nusbaum, and Adam K. Chippindale -- The empirical study of adaptation in natural populations / David Reznick and Joseph Travis -- Molecular population genetics of adaptation / Richard R. Hudson -- Paleontological data and the study of adaptation / Michael J. Novacek -- Adaptations of clades: resistance and response / Geerat J. Vermeij -- Adaptation in subdivided populations: kin selection and interdemic selection / Michael J. Wade -- Adaptation and selection of genomic parasites / Laurence D. Hurst -- The design of natural and artificial adaptive systems / Steven A. Frank.
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