Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics

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Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics

Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Dept Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA)

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Oxford University Press
11 May 2023

Mathematical modelling; Biology, life sciences; Evolution; Genetics (non-medical)

Evolutionary quantitative genetics (EQG) provides a formal theoretical foundation for quantitatively linking natural selection and genetic variation to the rate and expanse of adaptive evolution. It has become the dominant conceptual framework for interpreting the evolution of quantitative traits in terms of elementary forces (mutation, inheritance, selection, and drift).

Despite this success, the relevance of EQG to many biological scenarios remains relatively unappreciated, with numerous fields yet to fully embrace its approach. Part of the reason for this lag is that conceptual advances in EQG have not yet been fully synthesized and made accessible to a wider academic audience. A comprehensive, accessible overview is therefore now timely, and Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics provides this much-needed synthesis.

The central argument of the book is that an adaptive landscape concept can be used to understand both evolutionary process within lineages and the pattern of adaptive radiations. In particular, it provides a convincing argument that models with a moving adaptive peak carry us further than any other conceptual approach yet devised. Although additive theory holds center stage, the book mentions and references departures from additivity including non-Gaussian distributions of allelic effects, dominance, epistasis, maternal effects and phenotypic plasticity. This accessible, advanced textbook is aimed principally at students (from senior undergraduate to postgraduate) as well as practising scientists in the fields of evolutionary biology, ecology, physiology, functional morphology, developmental biology, comparative biology, paleontology, and beyond who are interested in how adaptive radiations are produced by evolutionary and ecological processes.

By: Prof Stevan J. Arnold (Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus Dept Integrative Biology Oregon State University USA)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1.036kg
ISBN: 9780192859389
ISBN 10: 0192859382
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 11 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stevan J. Arnold is Professor Emeritus, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, USA. He was made a Fellow of the AAA&S (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 2009, and has held the presidency of both the Society for the Study of Evolution (1998) and the American Society of Naturalists (2012). He is one of the top experts in the field and has published large numbers of highly cited academic articles in the realm of quantitative genetics.

Reviews for Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics

""The 22 chapters are broken into very manageable and well-motivated discussions on topics such as multivariate selection and evolution, adaptative landscapes, modularity and performance of functional traits, speciation, coevolution, and peak shifts. Many of these are areas where Arnold hasmade significant contributions."" -- Bruce Walsh, The Quarterly Review of Biology