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Olson, M: Adaptationist Evo-Devo

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

14.07.2026

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53 b/w illustrations

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Oxford Academic

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352

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2.4/15.6/23.5 cm

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585 g

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Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-783149-6

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

14.07.2026

Abbildungen

53 b/w illustrations

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

352

Maße (L/B/H)

2.4/15.6/23.5 cm

Gewicht

585 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-783149-6

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  • Produktbild: Olson, M: Adaptationist Evo-Devo

    • Contents

    • Introduction

    • Chapter 1 Standard Adaptation

    • 1.1 The three conditions necessary for observing natural selection. 1. Variation

    • 1.2 The three conditions necessary for observing natural selection. 2. Heritability

    • 1.3 The three conditions necessary for observing natural selection. 3. Fitness

    • 1.3.1 Survivorship

    • 1.3.2 Mating success

    • 1.3.3 Fecundity

    • 1.3.4 Interaction among the components of fitness

    • 1.4 The "force" of natural selection is metaphorical

    • 1.5 Sorting versus selection

    • 1.6 Watch out for "selection in constraint's clothing"

    • 1.7 Beware the ad hoc hypothesis

    • 1.8 What constitutes a selective pressure? Generation time and recurrence

    • 1.9 Measuring fitness empirically

    • 1.10 The importance of energetic efficiency in postulating fitness differences

    • 1.11 There can be multiple favored configurations and multiple "functions"

    • 1.11.1 "The" favored configuration or configurations

    • 1.11.2 "The" function of a biological feature

    • 1.12 "Continuous" variation: the main reaction point for adaptationist evo-devo

    • 1.13 Standard adaptation case studies

    • 1.13.1 Standard selection case studies: mammalian long bone-body mass relations

    • 1.13.2 Standard selection case studies: the human female orgasm

    • 1.13.3 Standard selection case studies: developmental bias

    • 1.13.4 Congratulations on expertly adaptationizing

    • 1.14 Benefits of being an expert adaptationist (and dangers of not being one)

    • 1.14.1 Macroevolution that isn't

    • 1.14.2 Biological metaphors: interspecific "competition," "stress," and environmental "filtering"

    • 1.15 Helpfulness is a helpful criterion

    • Chapter 2 Developmental potential and adaptation

    • 2.1 Motivating adaptationist evo-devo: limited variation

    • 2.1.1 Examples of limited variation: Always odd segment number in geophilomorph centipedes

    • 2.1.2 Examples of limited variation: The pentadactyl hand

    • 2.1.3 Examples of limited variation: The mystery of synapomorphy

    • 2.1.4 Examples of limited variation: Tradeoffs

    • 2.1.5 Examples of limited variation: Shared developmental cascades

    • 2.2 Developmental potential (evolvability)

    • 2.3 Adaptationist evo-devo case studies: layers of evidence, not "full proof" in a single study

    • 2.3.1 Arabidopsis directed mutagenesis

    • 2.3.2 Radish flower artificial selection

    • 2.3.3 Domesticated dogs

    • 2.3.4 Domesticated goldfish

    • 2.3.5 Domesticated and feral pigeon legs

    • 2.3.6 The architecture of organismal circulatory systems

    • 2.3.7 Fly micro-surgery

    • 2.3.8 Mammalian long bone scaling

    • 2.3.9 You can't get there from here: Erika Edwards's activation energy metaphor

    • 2.3.10 Drosophila flight performance maneuvering around panadaptationism

    • 2.3.11 Butterfly wing proportionalities

    • 2.3.12 Eppendorf tube flowers, 3D printed insects, and virtual morphospaces

    • 2.3.13 Seven cervical vertebrae

    • 2.3.14 Drosophila sex combs

    • 2.3.15 Carotenoid-based coloration in birds: selection acting in a finite space of possibilities

    • 2.4 Toward complementarity

    • Chapter 3 Evolution and developmental systems

    • 3.1 Everyone knows that genes alone aren't sufficient for inheritance

    • 3.2 Everyone knows that there is no straightforward connection between genotype and phenotype

    • 3.3 The contradiction that sticks in the craw of the genes-aren't everythingers

    • 3.4 If genes are causal agents, it should be possible to recognize them

    • 3.4.1 Mitochondrial ATPase subunits 6 and 8 in humans and mice

    • 3.4.2 Human and mouse INK4A/ARF

    • 3.4.3 IP259/DUb80 in Drosophila

    • 3.4.4 Gene expression in trypanosomes

    • 3.4.5 Slowpoke in chickens, Dscam in fruit flies

    • 3.4.6 The point of these examples

    • 3.5 Moving toward common ground: unresolved phylogenies and missing heritability

    • 3.5.1 Missing phylogenetic resolution

    • 3.5.2 Missing heritability

    • 3.6 Developmental resources and causal parity

    • 3.6.1 Opn, photons, and eye development

    • 3.6.2 Vitamin C

    • 3.6.3 Carnivorous vs. "proto-carnivorous" plants

    • 3.6.4 Duckling auditory development

    • 3.6.5 Parity of necessariness

    • 3.7 Distributed causation and three analogies of the genome

    • 3.7.1 The automobile engine analogy

    • 3.7.2 The analogy of the army general

    • 3.7.3 The analogy of digital music files

    • 3.8 DNA contains information: yes and no

    • 3.9 No plan in development

    • 3.10 Reliability of recruitment is what makes a resource

    • 3.11 Natural selection as the biasing of development

    • 3.12 Heritability as the reconstruction of the parental phenotype in development

    • 3.13 Inheritance involving more than genes

    • 3.14 Niche construction

    • 3.15 The unit of inheritance as the developmental system and "evolution" as change in the developmental system

    • 3.16 Order without bosses: Deborah Gordon's work on ants

    • 3.17 The physical properties of biological materials in development: more common ground

    • 3.18 A systems exercise

    • 3.19 Systems biology

    • 3.19.1 Systems biology insights: network architecture

    • 3.19.2 Systems biology insights: modularity

    • 3.19.3 Systems biology insights: robustness

    • 3.19.4 Systems biology insights: causal parity, again

    • 3.19.5 Systems: an attractor for all of biology

    • 3.20 Genetic "eppur si muove"

    • 3.20.1 Genetic causation residing in unseen antecedent steps

    • 3.20.2 Genetic backfill

    • 3.20.3 Environmental cues versus developmental resources

    • 3.21 What a developmental systems perspective means for adaptationist evo-devo

    • 3.21.1 Relaxing and expanding the notion of inheritance and the unit of inheritance

    • 3.21.2 Where the limits of developmental systems lie

    • 3.21.3 Expanding the causes of developmental potential and "mutation"

    • 3.21.4 The term "phenotype"

    • 3.22 A developmental systems view is not required for adaptationist evo-devo, and more common ground

    • Chapter 4 Understanding phenotypic plasticity and its role in evolution

    • 4.1 What phenotypic plasticity is

    • 4.2 Phenotypic plasticity is exclusively adaptive

    • 4.3 What is really meant by the plastic-genetic distinction

    • 4.4 No species is maximally plastic

    • 4.5 Clarifying "maladaptive plasticity"

    • 4.6 Change in developmental system, change in outcome

    • 4.7 "Mere plasticity": when plasticity is important and when it isn't in a functional explanation

    • 4.8 "Phenotype" and "environment" sensu lato

    • 4.9 Phenotypic accommodation: the other side of the plasticity coin

    • 4.9.1 Phenotypic accommodation in trees and termite mounds

    • 4.9.2 Phenotypic accommodation and human stunting

    • 4.10 Phenotypic plasticity and accommodation and novel phenotypes

    • 4.11 Plasticity-first, genes-as followers evolution

    • 4.11.1 Unusual developmental outcomes can also be assimilated

    • 4.12 What does plasticity-first evolution mean for well-supported explanations of organismal form?

    • Chapter 5 Building adaptationist evo-devo explanations of organismal form

    • 5.1 The sources of empirical evidence: comparative, populational, optimality, and developmental potential

    • 5.1.1 Source of empirical evidence: comparative method

    • 5.1.2 Source of empirical evidence: population biology

    • 5.1.3 Source of empirical evidence: optimality models

    • 5.1.4 Source of empirical evidence: developmental potential

    • 5.1.4.1 Manipulation

    • 5.1.4.2 Embryology

    • 5.1.4.3 The comparative method

    • 5.2 Generative assumptions and complementarity between sources of empirical evidence

    • 5.2.1 Populational weakness, comparative strength

    • 5.2.2 Comparative weakness, populational strength

    • 5.2.3 Essential complementarity of methods

    • 5.2.4 A (spurious) case can be made for the supremacy of any method

    • 5.3 Assumptions and just-so stories

    • 5.4 Moving from assumptions to evidence

    • 5.5 Untestable limits and historical assumptions

    • 5.6 Assumptions are part of even the best-supported evolutionary explanation

    • 5.7 Key clauses and loopholes in the fine print of evolutionary explanation

    • 5.7.1 No smoking guns

    • 5.7.2 The structure of a robust explanation--descriptive not proscriptive

    • 5.7.3 Putting the "deductive" in the hypothetico-deductive method

    • 5.7.4 Ceteris paribus

    • 5.7.5 Teleology, licensed and not

    • 5.7.6 "Progress" in phylogenies

    • 5.7.7 Underdetermination

    • 5.7.8 False dichotomies

    • 5.7.8.1 Dichotomies as tools of convenience.

    • 5.7.9 Managing metaphors

    • 5.7.9.1 Metaphor diagnostics

    • 5.7.9.2 The "adaptive landscape" metaphor

    • 5.7.9.3 The "genetic blueprint" metaphor

    • 5.7.10 Pattern versus process and the descriptive substitution fallacy: "phylogenetic inertia" and "niche conservatism"

    • 5.8 Real macroevolution

    • 5.9. "Explained by selection" or "explained by developmental constraint"

    • 5.9.1 "Explained by selection"

    • 5.9.2 "Explained by constraint"

    • 5.9.3 Extremes of a continuum: convergence versus parallelism

    • 5.9.4 "Contingency" versus selection

    • 5.9.5 The adaptation-constraint/contingency dichotomies as a question of scale

    • 5.10 Understanding the Spandrels paper

    • 5.10.1 The central analogy of Spandrels was a perfect illustration of selection

    • 5.10.2 True spandrels illustrate issues of trait delimitation, not "constraint"

    • 5.10.3 Spandrels can be exapted, but not all exaptations are spandrels

    • 5.11 Conclusion: explanation and complementarity

    • Chapter 6 Conclusion: Working together to build better explanations of organismal form

    • 6.1 Adaptationist evo-devo precepts

    • 6.1.1 Standard adaptationist accounts are non-trivial

    • 6.1.2 Exploring developmental potential is a key aspect of explanations of organismal form

    • 6.1.3 Developmental systems: small to large changes in research programs

    • 6.1.4 Phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive phenomenon

    • 6.1.5 Building explanations of organismal form: working together

    • 6.1.5.1 Common ground: Complementarity of methods

    • 6.1.5.2 Common ground: Disputes over relative importance, not wholesale disqualification

    • 6.1.5.3 Common ground: Systems biology

    • 6.1.5.4 Common ground: Order for free

    • 6.1.5.5 Common ground: What is possible and what it not in development

    • 6.1.5.6 Common ground: Universal regard for empirical data

    • 6.1.5.7 Common ground: The grain of research focus

    • 6.1.6 Just-so stories can be developmental as well as adaptationist, and they're not so bad.

    • 6.1.7 From buzzwords to bedrock

    • 6.2 "Adaptation vs. constraint" and alternative vocabulary

    • 6.3 The most useful false dichotomy

    • Glossary