Description
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics (EQG) serves as an essential academic resource that lays a robust theoretical groundwork for understanding the intricate connections between natural selection, genetic variation, and the trajectory of adaptive evolution. As a pioneering framework, it provides critical insights into interpreting quantitative traits through fundamental biological processes: mutation, inheritance, selection, and genetic drift. Despite its significance, the potential of EQG often goes unrecognized in various biological disciplines, leading to a delay in its widespread adoption. One of the key reasons for this oversight is the lack of a cohesive synthesis of the conceptual advancements that EQG has achieved, creating a gap that this book aims to address.
This timely and comprehensive overview in Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics invites readers to explore the adaptive landscape concept as a powerful tool for deciphering evolutionary dynamics across lineages, as well as the patterns observed in adaptive radiations. The book compellingly argues that models featuring a dynamic adaptive peak are the most effective means of understanding these complex processes, surpassing traditional conceptual approaches. While the text emphasizes additive genetic theory as foundational, it also delves into more nuanced topics such as non-Gaussian distribution of allelic effects, dominance, epistasis, maternal influences, and phenotypic plasticity, showcasing the full spectrum of genetic interactions at play.
Designed to be both advanced and accessible, this textbook targets a diverse audience that includes senior undergraduate students, graduate scholars, and practicing scientists spanning fields such as evolutionary biology, functional morphology, developmental biology, ecology, physiology, comparative biology, and paleontology. Those interested in the mechanisms that drive adaptive evolutionary processes and the resultant ecological radiations will find this book invaluable.
ISBNs: 978-0191949852, 978-0192675538, 978-0192859389, 978-0192859396, 978-0191949852.
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