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Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology

By:Laurence Mueller
Publisher:Elsevier S & T
Print ISBN:9780128160138
eText ISBN:9780128160145
Edition:0
Copyright:2020
Format:Reflowable

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Although biologists recognize evolutionary ecology by name, many only have a limited understanding of its conceptual roots and historical development. Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology fills that knowledge gap in a thought-provoking and readable format.

Written by a world-renowned evolutionary ecologist, this book embodies a unique blend of expertise in combining theory and experiment, population genetics and ecology. Following an easily-accessible structure, this book encapsulates and chronologizes the history behind evolutionary ecology. It also focuses on the integration of age-structure and density-dependent selection into an understanding of life-history evolution.

  • Covers over 60 seminal breakthroughs and paradigm shifts in the field of evolutionary biology and ecology
  • Modular format permits ready access to each described subject
  • Historical overview of a field whose concepts are central to all of biology and relevant to a broad audience of biologists, science historians, and philosophers of science