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Academic & Professional Books  Ecology  Evolutionary Ecology

Niche Construction The Neglected Process in Evolution

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By: F John Odling-Smee, Kevin N Laland and Marcus W Feldman
472 pages, 30 illus, 16 tabs
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Major reassessment of the significance of niche
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By transforming biotic and abiotic sources of natural selection in external environments, niche construction generates feedback in evolution on a scale hitherto underestimated. It also plays a critical role in ecology, supporting ecosystem engineering and influencing the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems. This book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as evolutionary processes. The authors support their historic move with empirical data, theoretical population genetics, and conceptual models. They demonstrate how their theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution.

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F. John Odling-Smee is a Lecturer in Oxford University's Institute of Biological Anthropology. Kevin N. Laland is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Biology at the University of St. Andrews. Marcus W. Feldman is Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.
Monograph
By: F John Odling-Smee, Kevin N Laland and Marcus W Feldman
472 pages, 30 illus, 16 tabs
NHBS
Major reassessment of the significance of niche
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In Niche Construction, Odling-Smee et al extend the Darwinian approach to provide a systemic framework for thinking about how environments are modified by organisms and the extent to which these constructed environments influence the evolution of other species. -- David Krakauer Times Higher Education Supplement Niche construction takes off from standard population genetics theory, but reinvents both the niche and evolutionary theory in ways that require a revolutionary re-thinking of ecological and evolutionary dynamics... A brief review cannot do justice to the excitement that [the authors] generate with their ideas. The relatively simple observation that at least some, if not most organisms modify their environment is shown by [them] to have dramatic consequences for our understanding of evolution by natural selection. -- Aaron M. Ellison Ecology A marvelous achievement... [The authors] present a sustained, rigorous, and highly original argument for the extended evolutionary theory they advocate, that blends theoretical, empirical and philosophical considerations in a most impressive way. -- Samir Okasha Biology and Philosophy
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