Evolutionary Biology - I - Oxford Bibliographies
Identifying the Genomic Basis Underlying Phenotypic Variation
Kara Powder, Craig Albertson
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Identifying the Genomic Basis Underlying Phenotypic VariationIntroductionSince the Modern Synthesis and the identification of the structure of DNA, ev...
Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression
Donald M. Waller, Lukas F. Keller
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Inbreeding and Inbreeding DepressionIntroductionInbreeding (also referred to as “consanguinity”) occurs when mates are related to each other due to in...
Inclusive Fitness
Charlie K. Cornwallis
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Inclusive Fitness Introduction Cooperation is abundant throughout the natural world and exists at all biological levels, from genes forming ge...
Innovation, Evolutionary
Douglas H. Erwin
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Evolutionary Innovation Introduction Innovation has been one of the most contentious issues in evolutionary biology in the past several decade...
Islands as Evolutionary Laboratories
Anna Holmquist, Rosemary G. Gillespie
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Islands as Evolutionary LaboratoriesIntroductionIslands have inspired biologists for hundreds of years as locations that foster unique biotic assembla...
Kin Selection
François Rousset, Laurent Lehmann
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Kin SelectionIntroductionKin selection theory is a formulation of natural selection theory that is particularly suitable for understanding cases of re...
Land Plants, Evolution of
Charles C. Davis, Sarah Mathews
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Evolution of Land PlantsIntroductionThe colonization of land by plants was one of the most important events in the earth’s history, setting the stage ...
Landscape Genetics
Andrew Storfer
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Landscape Genetics Introduction Landscape genetics emerged in 2003 as a field that integrates population genetics, landscape ecology, and spat...
Landscapes, Adaptive
Erik Svensson
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Adaptive LandscapesIntroductionAdaptive landscapes hold a central and special position in evolutionary theory, particularly in population and quantita...
Language, Evolution of
Sverker Johansson
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Evolution of LanguageIntroductionWhy do humans have language at all and how did we become language users? These are central questions in language evol...
Macroevolution
Pasquale Raia
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
MacroevolutionIntroductionMacroevolution is evolution above the level of species. As such, macroevolution applies to the study of the birth, diversifi...
Macroevolutionary Rates
Daniel L. Rabosky, Graham J. Slater
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Macroevolutionary Rates Introduction Many important questions in evolutionary biology are ultimately questions about evolutionary rates. Why d...
Male-Male Competition
Christine W. Miller, Ummat S. Somjee
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Male–Male Competition Introduction Sexual selection is among the most powerful of all evolutionary forces. It occurs when one sex competes for...
Mass Extinction
Paul B. Wignall
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Mass ExtinctionIntroductionMass extinctions are the worst crises that human life has ever faced. They are defined as geologically brief intervals, ran...
Mate Choice
Michael D. Jennions, Hanna Kokko
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Mate Choice Introduction Sexual selection favors characters that increase access to a limited supply of opposite-sex gametes. Some sexually se...
Maternal Effects
Tobias Uller
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Maternal EffectsIntroductionA maternal effect can be considered a causal effect of the parent phenotype on the phenotype of its offspring. Maternal ef...
Medicine, Evolutionary
Peter Gluckman, Felicia Low
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Evolutionary MedicineIntroductionEvolutionary medicine, sometimes referred to as Darwinian medicine, is an emerging academic field that employs evolut...
Meiotic Drive
Kathleen E. Pieper, Kelly Dyer
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Meiotic DriveIntroductionGenetic conflict occurs when one part of the genome increases its own fitness at the expense of another part of the genome. M...
Mimicry
Leena Lindström, Johanna Mappes
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Mimicry Introduction The visual resemblance of vivid color patterns among various species is a celebrated example of adaptation to avoid preda...
Modern Synthesis, The
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
The Modern SynthesisIntroductionThe “modern synthesis” generally refers to the early to mid-century formulation of evolutionary theory that reconciled...
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