Overview
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Matthias Glaubrecht
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Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Reveals many aspects among the wide spectrum of current approaches in evolutionary research
Presents a colourfully illustrated survey of current evolutionary biology research
Use of modern techniques from molecular biology, bioinformatics and systematic phylogeny
Allows the reconstruction of the relationships of organisms, the course of evolution and its underlying causations
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Approaches in Zoology
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- Dorit Liebers-Helbig, Viviane Sternkopf, Andreas J. Helbig, Peter de Knijff
Pages 351-371
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- Jörg Plötner, Thomas Uzzell, Peter Beerli, Çiğdem Akın, C. Can Bilgin, Cornelia Haefeli et al.
Pages 373-403
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- Barbara Nitz, Gerhard Falkner, Gerhard Haszprunar
Pages 405-435
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- Jan Sauer, Bernhard Hausdorf
Pages 437-450
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- Frieder Mayer, Dirk Berger, Brigitte Gottsberger, Wolfram Schulze
Pages 451-464
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- Fabian Herder, Ulrich K. Schliewen
Pages 465-483
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- Thomas von Rintelen, Kristina von Rintelen, Matthias Glaubrecht
Pages 485-512
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- Frank Köhler, Somsak Panha, Matthias Glaubrecht
Pages 513-550
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- Thomas Wilke, Mandy Benke, Martin Brändle, Christian Albrecht, Jean-Michel Bichain
Pages 551-578
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Back Matter
Pages 579-586
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Matthias Glaubrecht