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Evolutionary Biology

Limits to Knowledge in Evolutionary Genetics
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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.
Release date Australia
September 27th, 2012
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Max K. Hecht
  • Edited by Michael T Clegg
  • Edited by Ross J Macintyre
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Illustrations
XVII, 258 p.
Pages
258
Dimensions
156x234x14
ISBN-13
9781461368540
Product ID
21187867

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