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Ecological Genetics

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Ecological Genetics

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 1-11
  3. Sympatric Evolution

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 78-108
  4. The Theory of Genetic Polymorphism

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 109-136
  5. The Heterostyle-Homostyle System

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 218-233
  6. Chromosome Polymorphism

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 234-249
  7. Mimicry

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 250-283
  8. Transient Polymorphism and Melanism

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 314-354
  9. Isolation and Adaptation

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 355-389
  10. Conclusion

    • E. B. Ford
    Pages 390-393
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 394-442

About this book

This book describes the experimental study of evolution and adaptation, carried out by means of combined field-work and laboratory genetics. That technique has been developed during the last forty years or so by my colleagues and myself, and by a small but increasing number of geneticists throughout the world. In discussing what has been achieved by these means many relevant pieces of work familiar to me have been omitted, while doubtless there are others that have escaped my attention. To those who have thus laboured without recognition here, I offer my apologies. Yet I would not include further examples were I writing again, and this for two reasons. First, my aim is not to produce a com­ pendium in the German fashion, for I have endeavoured to develop principles with enough instances to illustrate them but no more. Secondly, this book is in danger of becoming too long as it is: one which is in general consulted only in libraries, not read familiarly by students.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    E. B. Ford

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecological Genetics

  • Authors: E. B. Ford

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5825-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: E. B. Ford 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-16130-8Published: 19 July 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5825-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 442

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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