Odling-Smee / Lala / Feldman Niche Construction

The Neglected Process in Evolution
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4726-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 488 Seiten

Reihe: Monographs in Population Biology

F. John Odling-Smee is a Lecturer in Oxford University's Institute of Biological Anthropology. Kevin N. Laland is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Biology at the University of St. Andrews. Marcus W. Feldman is Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Odling-Smee, F. John

Lala, Kevin N.

Feldman, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Figures, pg. vii
Tables, pg. ix
Preface, pg. xi
1. Introduction, pg. 1
2. The Evidence for Niche Construction, pg. 36
3. A Theoretical Investigation of the Evolutionary Consequences of Niche Construction, pg. 116
4. General Qualitative Characteristics of Niche Construction, pg. 167
5. Niche Construction and Ecology, pg. 194
6. Human Niche Construction, Learning, and Cultural Processes, pg. 239
7. Testing Niche Construction 1: Empirical Methods and Predictions for Evolutionary Biology, pg. 282
8. Testing Niche Construction 2: Empirical Methods, Theory, and Predictions for Ecology, pg. 305
9. Testing Niche Construction 3: Empirical Methods and Predictions for the Human Sciences, pg. 337
10. Extended Evolutionary Theory, pg. 370
Appendix 1: Model 1a, pg. 387
Appendix 2: Model 1b, pg. 401
Appendix 2: Model 1b, pg. 404
Appendix 3: Model 2, pg. 408
Appendix 4: Models 3 and 4, pg. 411
Appendix 5: Model 5, pg. 415
Glossary of New Terms, pg. 419
Bibliography (indexed), pg. 421
Index, pg. 457

Über Autor(innen)

F. John Odling-Smee is a Lecturer in Oxford University's Institute of Biological Anthropology. Kevin N. Lala is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Biology at the University of St. Andrews. Marcus W. Feldman is Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.