At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which
they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within
species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is
much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago.
In "Relentless Evolution", John N. Thompson explores why adaptive
evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in
so many different ways. Thompson presents a view of life in which
ongoing evolution is essential and inevitable. Each chapter focuses
on one of the major problems in adaptive evolution: How fast is
evolution? How strong is natural selection? How do species co-opt
the genomes of other species as they adapt? Why does adaptive
evolution sometimes lead to more, rather than less, genetic
variation within populations? How does the process of adaptation
drive the evolution of new species? How does coevolution among
species continually reshape the web of life? And, more generally,
how are our views of adaptive evolution changing? "Relentless
Evolution" draws on studies of all the major forms of life - from
microbes that evolve in microcosms within a few weeks to plants and
animals that sometimes evolve in detectable ways within a few
decades. It shows evolution not as a slow and stately process, but
rather as a continual and sometimes frenetic process that favors
yet more evolutionary change.
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