Sex and Evolution
George Christopher Williams
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that in low-fecundity higher organisms, sexual reproduction is generally maladaptive, and persists because there is no ready means of developing an asexual alternative.
The book then considers the evolutionary development of diverse forms of sexuality, such as anisogamy, hermaphroditism. and the evolution of differences between males and females in reproductive strategy. The final two chapters examine the effect of genetic recombination on the evolutionary process itself.
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Mate choice, Propagule, Reproduction, Cladogenesis, Rate of evolution, Charles Darwin, Gamete, Obligate parasite, Fitness (biology), Segregate (taxonomy), Sexual selection, Parental investment, Reproductive system, Anisogamy, Mendelian inheritance, Polyembryony, Frequency-dependent selection, Selfing, Sperm, Meiosis, Asexual reproduction, Competitive exclusion principle, Fecundity, Genetic assimilation, Hermaphrodite, Courtship, Introgression, Heterozygote advantage, Oviparity, Genetic variability, Lamarckism, Population genetics, Sexual reproduction, Selection coefficient, Apomixis, Mutation rate, Isogamy, Genetic recombination, Hybrid (biology), Mating, Gene, Evolution, Larva, Fertilisation, Sexual dimorphism, Outcrossing, Genotype, Evolutionary developmental biology, Arachnid, Gene Frequency, Ploidy, Female, Chromosomal crossover, Drosophila, Spawn (biology), Polymorphism (biology), Organism, Linkage disequilibrium, Disruptive selection, Natural selection, Kin selection, Group selection, Parthenogenesis, Zygote, Assortative mating, Polar body, Promiscuity, Adaptive radiation, Sex ratio, Species complex