The Evolution of Population Biology

Rama Singh is Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University, Ontario. Marcy Uyenoyama is Professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University, North Carolina.

• Introduction; Part I. Historical Foundations and Perspectives: 1. Building a science of population biology Richard Lewontin; 2. Toward a population biology, still Richard Levins; Part II. Genotypes to Phenotypes: New Genetic and Bioinformatic Advances: 3. Genetic dissection of quantitative traits Trudy Mackay; 4. Gene expression profiling in evolutionary genetics Daniel Hartl, Colin Meiklejohn, Cristian Castillo-Davis, Duccio Cavelieri, José Ranz and Jeffrey Townsend; 5. Population biology and bioinformatics Brian Golding; 6. Beyond beanbag genetics: Wright's adaptive landscape, gene interaction networks and the evolution of new genetic systems Rama Singh and Richard Morton; Part III. Phenotypes to Fitness: Genetics and Ecology of Populations: 7. Density dependant selection Freddy Christiansen; 8. Non-synonymous polymorphisms and frequency-dependent selection Bryan Clarke; 9. Why k=4Nµs is silly John Gillespie; 10. Inferences about the structure and history of populations: Coalescents and intraspecific phylogeography John Wakeley; 11. The population genetics of life-history evolution Brian Charlesworth; 12. Gene-environment complexities: what is so interesting to measure and to model? Peter Taylor; 13. Genus-specific diversification of mating types Marcy Uyenoyama and Naoki Takebayashi; Part III. Genes, Organisms and Environment: Evolutionary Case Studies: 14. Adaptation, constraint, and neutrality: mechanistic case studies with butterflies and their general implications Ward Watt; 15. Evolution in hybrid zones Daniel Howard, Seth Britch, W. Evan Braswell and Jeremy Marshall; 16. Nine relatives from one African ancestor: Population biology and evolution of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup species Daniel Lachaise, Pierre Capy, Marie-Louise Cariou, Dominique Joly, Francoise Lemeunier and Jean R. David; Part IV. Applied Population Biology: Biodiversity and Food, Disease and Health: 17. Conservation biology: where are we? Philip Hedrick; 18. The emergence of modern human mortality patterns Shripad Tuljapurkar; 19. Units of selection and the evolution of virulence Paul Ewald and Gregory Cochran; 20. Evolutionary genetics and emergence of RNA virus diseases Edward Holmes; 21. A scientific adventure: a fifty years study of human evolution Luigi Cavalli-Sforza; 22. Geneticists and the biology of race, 1900–24 Will Provine.

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