Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior: A Research Program in Comparative Biology - Hardcover

Brooks, Daniel R.; McLennan, Deborah A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226075710 ISBN 13: 9780226075716

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1991

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"The merits of this work are many. A rigorous integration of phylogenetic hypotheses into studies of adaptation, adaptive radiation, and coevolution is absolutely necessary and can change dramatically our collective 'gestalt' about much in evolutionary biology. The authors advance and illustrate this thesis beautifully. The writing is often lucid, the examples are plentiful and diverse, and the juxtaposition of examples from different biological systems argues forcefully for the validity of the thesis. Many new insights are offered here, and the work is usually accessible to both the practiced phylogeneticist and the naive ecologist."--Joseph Travis, Florida State University

"[Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior] presents its arguments forcefully and cogently, with ample . . .support. Brooks and McLennan conclude as they began, with the comment that evolution is a result, not a process, and that it is the result of an interaction of a variety of processes, environmental and historical. Evolutionary explanations must consider all these components, else they are incomplete. As Darwin's explanations of descent with modification integrated genealogical and ecological information, so must workers now incorporate historical and nonhistorical, and biological and nonbiological, processes in their evolutionary perspective."--Marvalee H. Wake, Bioscience

"This book is well-written and thought-provoking, and should be read by those of us who do not routinely turn to phylogenetic analysis when investigating adaptation, evolutionary ecology and co-evolution."--Mark R. MacNair, Journal of Natural History

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Daniel R. Brooks is a senior research associate of the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Daniel R. Brooks is a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto.

Deborah A. McLennan is an associate professor of zoology at the University of Toronto. Together they are the authors of Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior: A Research Program in Comparative Biology, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Parascript: Parasites and the Language of Evolution.

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This book attempts to convince the reader of new research opportunities by the integration of phylogeny with ecology and behavior. This creates a new fascination with the evolutionary perspective which will be called' historical ecology.'

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226075710
• ISBN 13: 9780226075716
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 441
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