Adaptation in metapopulations : how interaction changes evolution /

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the Afric...

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Main Author: Wade, Michael John, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Series:Interspecific interactions.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • What is group selection?
  • Group selection in the 1970s
  • Career beginnings and science after the thesis
  • Experimental studies of population heritability
  • Population ecology and population heritability
  • The evolution of sociality
  • Calibrating the laboratory to nature
  • Experimental studies of Wright's shifting balance theory
  • Beyond the shifting balancing theory.