Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 8: 1991 (Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology)

This new volume in the OSEB series presents reviews of key theoretical ideas and frameworks, and outlines progress in evolutionary studies. Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 10 Controversies in retrospect......Page 14 Sewall Wright: gene interaction and the Shifting Balance Theory......Page 48 Coevolution among competitors......Page 76 DNA variation in humans and its implications for human evolution......Page 124 Evolutionary studies in cultivated rice and its wild relatives......Page 148 The theoretical population genetics of autopolyploidy......Page 198 A causal analysis of stages in allopatric speciation......Page 232 Inferences from allometry and fossils: dwarfing of elephants on islands......Page 272 Morphology, the study of form and function, in modern evolutionary biology......Page 302 Symbiosis in evolution......Page 360 B......Page 396 D......Page 397 F......Page 398 H......Page 399 M......Page 400 O......Page 401 P......Page 402 R......Page 403 S......Page 404 X......Page 405 Part of a continuing series on evolutionary biology, this volume contains essays on morphology, symbiosis, co-evolution among competitors and the implications of DNA variations on human evolution, among other topics