Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Interplay of Selection, Accident, Neutrality, and FunctionJames Patrick Crutchfield, Peter Schuster The 14 chapters of this volume, which present an overview of new research in evolutionary dynamics, were first presented at a conference held in October 1998 at the Santa Fe Institute. The main divisions of the book are macroevolution; epochal evolution; population genetics, dynamics, and optimization; and evolution of cooperation. Individual topics include spectral landscape theory, external triggers in biological evolution, and evolutionary dynamics of asexual reproduction. Several of the contributors, like the editors, are affiliated with the Sante Fe Institute; others teach or work in physics, genetics, biology, computational neuroscience, and theoretical chemistry at universities and private institutions in the US, UK, Austria, Sweden, Australia, Israel, and Germany. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
How the Physical Realm Controls Evolution | 3 |
Developmental Morphospaces and Evolution | 33 |
A Statistical Physics View of Macroevolution | 65 |
On the Population Genetics of Punctuation | 81 |
When Evolution is Revolution | 101 |
The Roles of Neutrality Selection Mutation and Random Drift | 135 |
Molecular Insights into Evolution of Phenotypes | 163 |
The Nearly Neutral Theory with Special Reference to Interactions at the Molecular Level | 219 |
Spectral Landscape Theory | 231 |
Quasispecies Evolution on Dynamic Fitness Landscapes | 273 |
Recombination and Bistability in Finite Populations | 291 |
How Lower Individual Fitness Induces Higher Survivability | 305 |
Coevolution of Strategies in š¯‘›Person Prisoners Dilemma | 341 |
Evolutionary Design of Collective Computation in Cellular Automata | 361 |
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