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Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. Experimental evolution deliberately duplicates evolutionary processes—forcing life histories to evolve, producing adaptations to stressful environmental conditions, and generating lineage splitting to create incipient species. This book summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining current techniques and applications, and presenting the field's full range of research—from selection in the laboratory to the manipulation of populations in the wild. It provides work ... More
Keywords: experimental evolution, adaptations, environmental conditions, lineage splitting, incipient species, Darwinian fitness, sexual reproduction, life history, athletic performance, learning
Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520247666 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520247666.001.0001 |
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