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Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals - A Thermal Niche Approach (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Robustness, Plasticity, and Evolvability in Mammals - A Thermal Niche Approach (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology
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Among the unresolved topics in evolutionary biology and behavioral
ecology are the origins, mechanisms, evolution, and consequences of
developmental and phenotypic diversity. In an attempt to address
these challenges, plasticity has been investigated empirically and
theoretically at all levels of biological organization-from
biochemical to whole organism and beyond to the population,
community, and ecosystem levels. Less commonly explored are
constraints (e.g., ecological), costs (e.g., increased response
error), perturbations (e.g., alterations in selection intensity),
and stressors (e.g., resource limitation) influencing not only
selective values of heritable phenotypic components but, also,
decisions and choices (not necessarily conscious ones) available to
individuals in populations. Treating extant mammals, the primary
purpose of the proposed work is to provide new perspectives on
common themes in the literature on robustness ("functional
diversity"; differential resistance to "deconstraint" of conserved
elements) and weak robustness (the potential to restrict plasticity
and evolvability), plasticity (variation expressed throughout the
lifetimes of individuals in a population setting "evolvability
potential"), and evolvability (non-lethal phenotypic novelties
induced by endogenous and/or exogenous stimuli). The proposed
project will place particular emphasis upon the adaptive complex in
relation to endogenous (e.g., genomes, neurophysiology) and
exogenous (abiotic and biotic, including social environments)
organismal features discussed as regulatory and environmental
perturbations with the potential to induce, and, often, constrain
variability and novelty of form and function
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