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Evolution in Action - Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Evolution in Action - Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Radiations, or Evolution in Action We have just celebrated the
"Darwin Year" with the double anniversary of his 200th birthday and
150th year of his masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species by means
of Natural Selection". In this work, Darwin established the factual
evidence of biological evolution, that species change over time,
and that new organisms arise by the splitting of ancestral forms
into two or more descendant species. However, above all, Darwin
provided the mechanisms by arguing convincingly that it is by
natural selection - as well as by sexual selection (as he later
added) - that organisms adapt to their environment. The many
discoveries since then have essentially con?rmed and strengthened
Darwin's central theses, with latest evidence, for example, from
molecular genetics, revealing the evolutionary relationships of all
life forms through one shared history of descent from a common
ancestor. We have also come a long way to progressively understand
more on how new species actually originate, i. e. on speciation
which remained Darwin's "mystery of m- teries", as noted in one of
his earliest transmutation notebooks. Since speciation is the
underlying mechanism for radiations, it is the ultimate causation
for the biological diversity of life that surrounds us.
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