Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree
Jonathan Losos
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University of California Press
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological diversity in the living world. One of the best-studied examples involves Caribbean Anolis lizards. With about 400 species, Anolis has played an important role in the development of ecological theory and has become a model system exemplifying the integration of ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral studies to understand evolutionary diversification. This major work, written by one of the best-known investigators of Anolis, reviews and synthesizes an immense literature. Jonathan B. Losos illustrates how different scientific approaches to the questions of adaptation and diversification can be integrated and examines evolutionary and ecological questions of interest to a broad range of biologists.
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living world, biology, haiti, predictability, convergent evolution, phenomenon, science, natural laboratory, creatures, lizards, caribbean islands, lizard diversity, puerto rico, generational, model system, ecology, evolutionary diversification, adaptive landscape, adaptation, scientists, hispaniola, adaptive radiation, comparable traits, ecological theory, cuba, caribbean anolis lizards, behavioral studies, biological diversity, environment, dominican republic, ancestral species, evolution, understanding evolution, jamaica