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In the Light of Evolution - Volume I: Adaptation and Complex Design (Hardcover)
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In the Light of Evolution - Volume I: Adaptation and Complex Design (Hardcover)
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In December 2006, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a
colloquium (featured as part of the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia
series) on "Adaptation and Complex Design" to synthesize recent
empirical findings and conceptual approaches toward understanding
the evolutionary origins and maintenance of complex adaptations.
Darwin's elucidation of natural selection as a creative natural
force was a monumental achievement in the history of science, but a
century and a half later some religious believers still contend
that biotic complexity registers conscious supernatural design. In
this book, modern scientific perspectives are presented on the
evolutionary origin and maintenance of complex phenotypes including
various behaviors, anatomies, and physiologies. After an
introduction by the editors and an opening historical and
conceptual essay by Francisco Ayala, this book includes 14 papers
presented by distinguished evolutionists at the colloquium. The
papers are organized into sections covering epistemological
approaches to the study of biocomplexity, a hierarchy of topics on
biological complexity ranging from ontogeny to symbiosis, and case
studies explaining how complex phenotypes are being dissected in
terms of genetics and development. Table of Contents Front Matter
Part I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAY 1 Darwin's Greatest Discovery: Design
Without Designer--FRANCISCO J. AYALA Part II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL
APPROACHES TO BIOCOMPLEXITY ASSESSMENT 2 Functional Information and
the Emergence of Biocomplexity--ROBERT M. HAZEN, PATRICK L.
GRIFFIN, JAMES M. CAROTHERS, and JACK W. SZOSTAK 3 The Theory of
Facilitated Variation--JOHN GERHART and MARC KIRSCHNER 4 Between
''Design'' and ''Bricolage'': Genetic Networks, Levels of
Selection, and Adaptive Evolution--ADAM S. WILKINS 5 The Frailty of
Adaptive Hypotheses for the Origins of Organismal
Complexity--MICHAEL LYNCH Part III: FROM INDIVIDUAL ONTOGENY TO
SYMBIOSIS: A HIERARCHY OF COMPLEXITY 6 Emerging Principles of
Regulatory Evolution--BENJAMIN PRUD'HOMME, NICOLAS GOMPEL, and SEAN
B. CARROLL 7 Evolution of Individuality During the Transition from
Unicellular to Multicellular Life--RICHARD E. MICHOD 8 Insect
Societies as Divided Organisms: The Complexities of Purpose and
Cross-Purpose--JOAN E. STRASSMANN and DAVID C. QUELLER 9 Symbiosis
as an Adaptive Process and Source of Phenotypic Complexity--NANCY
A. MORAN Part IV: CASE STUDIES: DISSECTING COMPLEX PHENOTYPES 10
Adaptive Evolution of Color Vision as Seen Through the Eyes of
Butterflies--FRANCESCA D. FRENTIU, GARY D. BERNARD, CRISTINA I.
CUEVAS, MARILOU P. SISON-MANGUS, KATHLEEN L. PRUDIC, and ADRIANA D.
BRISCOE 11 Plant Domestication, a Unique Opportunity to Identify
the Genetic Basis of Adaptation--JEFFREY ROSS-IBARRA, PETER L.
MORRELL, and BRANDON S. GAUT 12 An Experimental Test of
Evolutionary Trade-Offs During Temperature Adaptation--ALBERT F.
BENNETT and RICHARD E. LENSKI 13 Two Routes to Functional
Adaptation: Tibetan and Andean High-Altitude Natives--CYNTHIA M.
BEALL 14 On the Origin and Evolutionary Diversification of Beetle
Horns--DOUGLAS J. EMLEN, LAURA CORLEY LAVINE, and BEN EWEN-CAMPEN
Part V: CONCLUDING ESSAY 15 Biological Design in Science
Classrooms--EUGENIE C. SCOTT and NICHOLAS J. MATZKE References
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