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Evolutionary Biology

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Max K. Hecht

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

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  2. Bruce Wallace

    1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

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Part of the book series: Evolutionary Biology (EBIO, volume 23)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Maintenance of a Hereditary Virus

    • Annie Fleuriet
    Pages 1-30

  3. Domestication

    • M. J. Kohane, P. A. Parsons
    Pages 31-48

  4. Range Expansion and Its Genetic Consequences in Populations of the Giant Toad, Bufo marinus

    • Simon Easteal
    Pages 49-84

  5. Evolution by Social Selection

    • Shozo Yokoyama
    Pages 85-126

  6. The Influence of Taxonomic Method on the Perception of Patterns of Evolution

    • Andrew B. Smith, Colin Patterson
    Pages 127-216

  7. Genetic Diversity in Nature

    • Eviatar Nevo
    Pages 217-246

  8. Challenges to the Evolutionary Synthesis

    • Richard M. Burian
    Pages 247-269

  9. Evolution and Genetics of Epigean and Cave Astyanax fasciatus (Characidae, Pisces)

    • Horst Wilkens
    Pages 271-367

  10. Random Walk and the Biometrics of Morphological Characters

    • Fred L. Bookstein
    Pages 369-398

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 399-405
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Editors and Affiliations

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

    Max K. Hecht

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    Bruce Wallace

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolutionary Biology

  • Editors: Max K. Hecht, Bruce Wallace

  • Series Title: Evolutionary Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1043-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8306-5Published: 23 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1043-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 420

  • Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology

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