This volwne consists ofpapers written by evolutionary, molecular
and organismal biologists, geneticists, ecologists, behavioural
ecologists, morphologists, mathematicians, theoreticians and
experimentalists, in honour of Professor Eviatar (Eibi) Nevo on the
occasion ofhis seventieth birthday. The contributors are only a
small subset ofEibi's many friends, collaborators and students (not
that one can distinguish these categories among Eibi's colleagues).
His widespread influence and activity, both in Ismel and more
genemlly, as a leading evolutionary biologist is indicated by his
many co-authors on books and papers, and byhis many students
integmted in teaching and research. Sensible publishers, and indeed
readers, reflexively flinch from Festschrifts, which too often are
well-intentioned but inchoate collections of papers (frequently
recycled). This particular collection, however, is unified by the
way the editors have built on Eibi's own work, to provide a
connective narrative and synthesis, much ofwhich is new material.
The unifYing thread is evolutionary theory. As a result of recent
advances at the interface between molecular and organismal biology,
evolutionary theory is currently undergoing one of its most dynamic
and dramatic developments, unravelling the origins, structure and
evolution ofliving organisms. Over the past four decades, studies
ofthe causes and consequences of biological diversity at every
level - genes, genomes, populations, species, ecosystems, - have
revolutionised evolutionary biology. New perspectives in ecological
dynamics and in molecular biology and in diversity, along with
complete sequencing ofthe first prokaryote and eukaryote genomes,
highlight the evolutionary origins and relationships which underlie
the unity and diversityoflife onour small planet.
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