Selection : the mechanism of evolution / Graham Bell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text adopts a direct experimental approach to evolutionary questions, drawing predominantly from research on microbial systems. The focus is on processes and mechanisms, and incorporates insights from recent advances in whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics, environmental genomics and developmental genetics.

7. Natural selection in open populations -- 7.1. Fitness in natural populations -- 7.2. Phenotypic selection -- 7.3. Selection experiments in the field -- 7.4. Adaptation to the humanized landscape -- 7.5. The ghost of selection past -- 8. Adaptive radiation : diversity and specialization -- 8.1. Adaptive and non-adaptive radiation -- 8.2. G X E -- 8.3. Specialization and generalization -- 8.4. Opportunities in space : obligations in time -- 8.5. Local adaptation -- 9. Autoselection : selfish genetic elements -- 9.1. Infection -- 9.2. Interference -- 9.3. Gonotaxis -- 10. Social selection -- 10.1. Selection within a single uniform population : density-dependent selection -- 10.2. Selection within a single diverse population : frequency-dependent selection -- 10.3. Social behaviour -- 10.4. Kin selection and group selection -- 11. Co-evolution -- 11.1. Rivals -- 11.2. Partners -- 11.3. Enemies -- 11.4. Ecosystems -- 12. Sexual selection -- 12.1. Evolution of sex -- 12.2. The alternation of generations -- 12.3. Gender -- 12.4. Beauty and the beast -- 13. Speciation -- 13.1. Speciation and diversification -- 13.2. Experimental speciation -- 13.3. Emerging species -- 14. Epitome -- References -- Index.

The second science -- 1. Simple selection -- 2. The genetic and ecological context of selection -- 2.1. History, chance, and necessity -- 2.2. The rate of genetic deterioration -- 2.3. The rate of environmental deterioration -- 3. Natural selection in closed asexual populations -- 3.1. Microcosmologia -- 3.2. Sorting : selection or pre-existing variation -- 3.3. Purifying selection : maintaining adaptedness despite genetic deterioration -- 3.4. Directional selection : restoring adaptedness despite environmental deterioration -- 3.5. Successive substitution -- 3.6. Cumulative adaptation -- 3.7. Successive substitution at several loci -- 4. Prometheus unbound : releasing the constraints on natural selection -- 4.1. Increasing the mutation rate -- 4.2. Horizontal transmission -- 4.3. Sex -- 4.4. Dispersal -- 5. Selection in multicellular organisms -- 5.1. Size matters -- 5.2. Reproductive allocation -- 5.3. Life histories -- 6. Artificial selection -- 6.1. Selection acting on quantitative variation -- 6.2. Generations 1-10 : the short-term response -- 6.3. Generations 10-1000 : the limits to selection -- g 6.4. Generations 100 up : new kinds of creatures.

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