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Author | : Isa Schön |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 904812770X |
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Sex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an evolutionary point of view, one could wonder why not all animals and plants reproduce asexually. Dozens of contemporary hypotheses attempt to explain the prevalence of sex and its advantages and predict the early extinction of fully asexual lineages. The major theme of this book is: what is the fate of animal and plant groups in which sex is lost? Initial chapters discuss theory behind asexual life: what major disadvantages do asexual groups have to face, what are the genetic and ecological consequences and what does this theory predict for more applied aspects of asexual life, for example in agricultural pests, diseases as well as in cultural crops such as grapes. Cases studies in many animals (focusing on both invertebrates and vertebrates) and plants reveal parallel, but also singularly novel adaptations to the absence of meiosis and syngamy. And last but not least, are asexuals really doomed to early extinction or do genuine ancient asexuals exist? This book assembles contributions from the most important research groups dealing with asexual evolution in eukaryotes. It is a milestone in research on parthenogenesis and will be useful to undergraduate as well as graduate students and to senior researchers in all fields of evolutionary biology, as the paradox of sex remains its queen of problems.
Author | : S.C. Stearns |
Publisher | : Birkhäuser |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3034862733 |
Download The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Koen Martens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Patrick Geddes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Sex (Biology) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Patrick Geddes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1890 |
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Author | : Isa Sch N |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789048127719 |
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Author | : John Merle Coulter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Evolution (Biology) |
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Author | : Nina Gerber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Graham Bell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1000497445 |
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Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution. The book suggests that sex evolved, not as the result of normal Darwinian processes of natural selection, but through competition between populations or species - a hypothesis elsewhere almost universally discredited. The book also discusses the nature of sex and its consequences for the individual and for the population, as well as various other theories of sex. Since the value of these theories is held to reside wholly in their ability to predict the patterns of sexuality observed in nature, the book seeks to provide an extensive review of the circumstances in which sexuality is attenuated or lost throughout the animal kingdom, and these facts are then used to weigh up the merits of the rival theories. This book will be of interest to researchers in the area of genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology.
Author | : George Briggs Starkweather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Diagnostic sex determination |
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