Evolution's Wedge Competition and the Origins of Diversity
(eBook)
Author
Contributors
Pfennig, Karin, author.
Published
University of California Press, 2012.
Format
eBook
Edition
1.
ISBN
9780520954045 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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English
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Enki Library eBook.
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"Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits and new species. Despite Darwin's emphasis, competition's role in diversification remains controversial and largely underappreciated.In their synthetic and provocative book, evolutionary ecologists David and Karin Pfennig explore competition's role in generating and maintaining biodiversity. The authors discuss how selection can lessen resource competition or costly reproductive interactions by promoting trait evolution through a process known as character displacement. They further describe character displacement's underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms. The authors then consider character displacement's myriad downstream effects, ranging from shaping ecological communities to promoting new traits and new species and even fueling large-scale evolutionary trends. Drawing on numerous studies from natural populations, and written for a broad audience, Evolution's Wedge seeks to inspire future research into character displacement's many implications for ecology and evolution."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pfennig, D., & Pfennig, K. (2012). Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity (1.). University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pfennig, David and Karin, Pfennig. 2012. Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity. University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pfennig, David and Karin, Pfennig. Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity University of California Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pfennig, David., and Karin Pfennig. Evolution's Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity 1., University of California Press, 2012.
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