Evolutionary Dynamics Exploring the Interplay of Selection, Accident, Neutrality, and Function

Contents

Preface: Dynamics of Evolutionary Processes; MACROEVOLUTION; The Sloshing Bucket: How the Physical Realm Controls Evolution; Developmental Morphospaces and Evolution; The Dynamics of Large Biological Systems: A Statistical Physics View of Macroevolution; EPHOCHAL EVOLUTION; On the Population Genetics of Punctuation; When Evolution is Revolution; Evolution and Speciation in a Hyperspace: The Roles of Neutrality, Selection, Mutation, and Random Drift; Molecular Insights into Evolution of Phenotypes; POPULATION GENETICS, DYNAMICS, AND OPTIMIZATION; The Nearly Neutral Theory with Special Reference to Interactions at the Molecular Level; Spectral Landscape Theory; Quasispecies Evolution on Dynamic Fitness Landscapes; Recombination and Bistability in Finite Populations; EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION; On the Dynamic Persistence of Cooperation: How Lower Individual Fitness Induces Higher Survivability; Coevolution of Strategies in n-Person Prisoner's Dilemma; Evolutionary Design of Collective Computation in Cellular Automata; Index

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