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Evolutionary Biology

Limits to Knowledge in Evolutionary Genetics

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Editors:
  1. Michael T. Clegg

    1. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA

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  2. Max K. Hecht

    1. Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, USA

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  3. Ross J. Macintyre

    1. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: Evolutionary Biology (EBIO, volume 32)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Limits to Knowledge An Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Limits to Our Knowledge of Evolution

      • Michael Ruse
      Pages 3-33

    3. Limits to Knowledge in Population Genetics

      • Michael T. Clegg
      Pages 35-51

  3. The Philosophy of Biology, Paradigms, and Paradigm Shifts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-55
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    2. Laws, History, and the Nature of Biological Understanding

      • Alex Rosenberg
      Pages 57-72

    3. Avoiding Paradigm-Based Limits to Knowledge of Evolution

      • Ward B. Watt
      Pages 73-96

    4. Anticipating Scientific Revolutions in Evolutionary Genetics

      • Jody Hey
      Pages 97-111

  4. Limits to Historical Inference and Prediction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-115
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    2. Inferring Ancestral Character States

      • Gary A. Churchill
      Pages 117-134

    3. The Problem of Inferring Selection and Evolutionary History from Molecular Data

      • Charles F. Aquadro
      Pages 135-149

    4. Evolutionary Genetics of Primate Color Vision

      • Wen-Hsiung Li, Stephane Boissinot, Ying Tan, Song-Kun Shyue, David Hewett-Emmett
      Pages 151-178

    5. The Limits to Knowledge in Conservation Genetics

      • Leonard Nunney
      Pages 179-194

    6. What Is the Structure of Human Populations?

      • Bruce S. Weir
      Pages 195-202

  5. Quantitative Genetics and the Prediction of Phenotype from Genotype

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-204
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    2. Limits to Prediction of Phenotypes from Knowledge of Genotypes

      • Andrew G. Clark
      Pages 205-224

    3. The Limits to Knowledge in Quantitative Genetics

      • Michael Lynch
      Pages 225-237

    4. Genetics of Species Differentiation

      • Chung-I Wu
      Pages 239-248

  6. Conclusions

    1. Conclusions

      • Michael T. Clegg
      Pages 249-250

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 251-258
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About this book

After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "Evolutionary Biology." Please visit www.springer.com/11692 for further information.

 

The nature of science is to work on the boundaries between the known and the unknown. These boundaries shift as new methods are developed and as new concepts are elaborated (e.g., the theory of the gene, or more recently, the coalescence framework in population genetics). These tools allow us to address questions that were previously outside the realm of science, and, as a consequence, the boundary between the knowable and unknowable has shifted. A study of limits should reveal and clarify the boundaries and make sharper the set of questions. This book examines and analyzes these new limits as they are applied to evolutionary biology and population genetics. It does this by framing the analysis within four major classes of problems - establishing the fact of evolution; understanding the evolutionary pathways that led to today's biological world; mechanisms of evolutionary change (e.g., models of social behavior, sexual selection, macro evolution); and, finally, prediction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA

    Michael T. Clegg

  • Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, USA

    Max K. Hecht

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Ross J. Macintyre

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolutionary Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Limits to Knowledge in Evolutionary Genetics

  • Editors: Michael T. Clegg, Max K. Hecht, Ross J. Macintyre

  • Series Title: Evolutionary Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4135-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46227-6Published: 30 September 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6854-0Published: 27 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4135-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 258

  • Topics: Human Genetics, Evolutionary Biology

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