Name: Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity Volume 12 (en Inglés)
SKU: 9196528
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Author: Pfennig, David ; Pfennig, Karin
ISBN: 9780520274181

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Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity Volume 12 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David Pfennig

Karin Pfennig

Editorial

University of California Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

25.4x17.5x2.3 cm

Peso

0.96 kg.

ISBN

0520274180

ISBN13

9780520274181

Categorías

Ecología, la biosfera
Zoología y ciencias animales
Ecología aplicada

Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity Volume 12 (en Inglés)

David Pfennig (Autor) · Karin Pfennig (Autor) · University of California Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity Volume 12 (en Inglés)"

Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin's emphasis, competition's role in diversification remains controversial and largely underappreciated.In their synthetic and provocative book, evolutionary ecologists David and Karin Pfennig explore competition's role in generating and maintaining biodiversity. The authors discuss how selection can lessen resource competition or costly reproductive interactions by promoting trait evolution through a process known as character displacement. They further describe character displacement's underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms. The authors then consider character displacement's myriad downstream effects, ranging from shaping ecological communities to promoting new traits and new species and even fueling large-scale evolutionary trends. Drawing on numerous studies from natural populations, and written for a broad audience, Evolution's Wedge seeks to inspire future research into character displacement's many implications for ecology and evolution.