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About this book
An enduring controversy in evolutionary biology is the genetic basis of adaptation. Darwin emphasized "many slight differences" as the ultimate source of variation to be acted upon by natural selection. In the early 1900’s, this view was opposed by "Mendelian geneticists", who emphasized the importance of "macromutations" in evolution. The Modern Synthesis resolved this controversy, concluding that mutations in genes of very small effect were responsible for adaptive evolution.
A decade ago, Allen Orr and Jerry Coyne reexamined the evidence for this neo-Darwinian view and found that both the theoretical and empirical basis for it were weak. Orr and Coyne encouraged evolutionary biologists to reexamine this neglected question: what is the genetic basis of adaptive evolution?
In this volume, a new generation of biologists have taken up this challenge. Using advances in both molecular genetic and statistical techniques, evolutionary geneticists have made considerable progress in this emerging field. In this volume, a diversity of examples from plant and animal studies provides valuable information for those interested in the genetics and evolution of complex traits.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genetics of Adaptation
Editors: Rodney Mauricio
Series Title: Georgia Genetics Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3836-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3476-3Published: 18 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6876-7Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3836-5Published: 20 July 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 209
Additional Information: Reprinted from Genetica, Volume 12(1-2), 2005
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Evolutionary Biology, Community & Population Ecology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Biodiversity