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Evolvability: a unifying concept in evolutionary biology?
Publisher
The MIT Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Introduction: Evolvability / Thomas F. Hansen, Christophe Pélabon, David Houle, and Mihaela Pavličev
A History of Evolvability: Reconstructing and Explaining the Origination of Research Agenda / Laura Nuño de la Rosa
Conceputal Roles of Evolvability across Evolutionary Biology: Between Diversity and Unification / Cristina Villegas, Alan C. Love, Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Ingo Brigandt, and Gunter P. Wagner
Evolvability as a Disposition: Philosophical Distinctions, Scientific Implications / Ingo Brigandt, Cristina Villegas, Alan C. Love, and Laura Nuño de la Rosa
Variation, Inheritance, and Evolution: A Primer on Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics / Thomas F. Hansen
Measuring Evolvability / David Houle and Chrisophe Pélabon
The Evolution of Evolvability / Thomas F. Hansen and Günter P. Wagner
The Genotype-Phenotype Map Structure and Its Role in Evolvability / Mihaela Pavličev, Salomé Bourg, and Arnaud Le Rouzic
The Developmental Basis for Evolvability / Benedikt Hallgrímsson, J. David Aponte, Marta Vidal-García, Heather Richbourg, Rebecca Green, Nathan M. Young, James M. Cheverud, Anne L. Calof, Arthur D. Lander, and Ralph S. Marcucio
Models of Contingent Evolvability Suggest Dynamical Instabilities in Body Shape Evolution / Günter P. Wagner
Mutational Robustness and Evolvability / Andreas Wagner
Evolvability, Sexual Selection, and Mating Strategies / Jacqueline L. Sztepanacz, Josselin Clo, and Øystein H. Opedal
Can We Explain Variation in Evolvability on Ecological Timescales? / Christophe Pelabon, Michael B. Morrissey, Jane M. Reid, and Jacqueline L. Sztepanacz
Does Lack of Evolvability Constrain Adaptation? If So, on What Timescales? / Kjetil L. Voje, Mark Grabowski, Agnes Holstad, Arthur Porto, Masahito Tsuboi, and Geir H. Bolstad
Evolvability of Flowers: Macroevolutionary Indicators of Adaptive Paths of Least Resistance / W. Scott Armbruster
Evolvability of Body Plans: On Phylotpic Stages, Developmental Modularity, and an Ancient Metazoan Constraints / Frietson Galis
Evolvability and Macroevolution / David Jablonski
Conclusion: Is Evolvability a New and Unifying Concept? / David Houle, Christophe Pélabon, Mihaela Pavličev, and Thomas F. Hansen.
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Hansen, Thomas F. editor
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9780262545624
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