{"product_id":"adaptive-diversification-9780691128948","title":"Adaptive Diversification","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates adaptive diversification using the mathematical framework of adaptive dynamics. Showing that frequency-dependent interactions are an important driver of biological diversity, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical treatment of adaptive diversification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his is a timely, useful study that should inspire and equip young theoreticians to indentify and explore the important unanswered questions in adaptive diversification.\"--Graeme Ruxton, Quarterly Review of Biology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi  Chapter 1. Introduction 1  Chapter 2. Evolutionary Branching in a Classical Model for Sympatric Speciation 9      Chapter 3. Adaptive Diversification Due to Resource Competition in Asexual Models 38  3.1 Adaptive dynamics with symmetric competition kernels 50  3.2 Adaptive dynamics with asymmetric competition kernels 64      Chapter 4. Adaptive Diversification Due to Resource Competition in Sexual Models 74  4.1 Evolutionary branching in sexual populations when assortative mating is based on the ecological trait (one-allele models) 82  4.2 Evolution of assortative mating 90  4.3 Evolutionary branching in sexual populations when assortative mating is not based on the ecological trait (two-allele models) 100  4.4 A footnote on adaptive speciation due to sexual selection 110      Chapter 5. Adaptive Diversification Due to Predator-Prey Interactions 113  5.1 Adaptive diversification in classical predator-prey models 114  5.2 An example of evolutionary branching in host-pathogen models 132      Chapter 6. Adaptive Diversification Due to Cooperative Interactions 139  6.1 Diversification in models for intraspecific cooperation 139  6.2 Diversification in coevolutionary models of cooperation 148      Chapter 7. More Examples: Adaptive Diversification in Dispersal Rates, the Evolution of Anisogamy, and the Evolution of Trophic Preference 163  7.1 Diversification in dispersal rates 163  7.2 Diversification in gamete size: evolution of anisogamy 180  7.3 Diversification in trophic preference: evolution of complexity in ecosystems 189      Chapter 8. Cultural Evolution: Adaptive Diversification in Language and Religion 195  8.1 Diversification of languages 197  8.2 Diversification of religions 200      Chapter 9. Adaptive Diversification and Speciation as Pattern Formation in Partial Differential Equation Models 217  9.1 Partial differential equation models for adaptive diversification due to resource competition 218  9.2 Partial differential equation models for predator-prey interactions 236  9.3 Partial differential equation models for adaptive diversification in spatially structured populations 242  9.4 A general theory of diversification in partial differential equation models 258      Chapter 10. Experimental Evolution of Adaptive Diversification in Microbes 262  Appendix: Basic Concepts in Adaptive Dynamics 279  Bibliography 306  Index 323","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49922422210903,"sku":"9780691128948","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691128948.jpg?v=1738537838","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adaptive-diversification-9780691128948","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}