As an authoritative work covering the whole field of evolutionary biology, this book provides a fully comprehensive review of the field in an easy to search structure that is an ideal reference for students and professionals alike.

Table of Contents

• Editor-in-Chief
• Section Editors
• Preface
• Foreword
• Permission Acknowledgments
• VOLUME 1
• A
• Adaptation, History of
• Adaptive Landscapes
• Adaptive Molecular Evolution: Detection Methods
• Adaptive Mutation Controversy
• Adaptive Radiations: Insights From Evo-Devo
• Age-Specific Survivorship and Fertility, Estimating
• Aging: Why Do We Age?
• Amniotes, Diversification of
• Amniotes, the Origin of
• Ancestral Reconstruction: Theory and Practice
• Angiosperm Phylogeny and Diversification
• Animal: What Is an Animal?
• Antagonistic Interspecific Coevolution
• Archaeplastida: Diversification of Red Algae and the Green Plant Lineage
• Artificial Selection
• B
• Bacterial Diversity, Introduction to
• Bacterial Species Concepts
• Basic Science and Evolutionary Biology
• Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods
• Biogeography, Conservation
• Biogeography, Ecological Theories in
• Biogeography, Evolutionary Theories in
• Biogeography, History of
• Biogeography, Human
• Biogeography, Marine
• Biogeography, Microbial
• Biogeography of Arthropods
• Biogeography of Interactions
• Biogeography of Islands, Lakes, and Mountaintops; Evolutionary
• Biogeography of Vertebrates
• Biogeography, Patterns in
• Bird Flight Origins
• Birds, Diversification of
• C
• Cambrian Explosion: A Molecular Paleobiological Overview
• C4 and CAM Photosynthesis in Land Plants, Evolution and Diversification of
• Carbon Relations, the Role in Plant Diversification of
• Cellular Behaviors Underlying Pattern Formation and Evolution
• Climate Change, Quantitative Genetics and
• Coalescent and Models of Identity by Descent
• Codon Usage and Translational Selection
• Coevolutionary Fitness Landscapes
• Coevolution, Bacterial-Phage
• Coevolution, Introduction to
• Commensalism, Amensalism, and Synnecrosis
• Compensatory Evolution
• Complexity, the Role of Oxygen in Evolution of
• Consensus Methods, Phylogenetic
• Conservation Biology, Evolution and
• Conservation Biology, Quantitative Genetics in
• Convergent Evolution, Adaptive Radiation, and Species Diversification in Plants
• Cooperation and Public Goods, Bacterial
• Cospeciation
• D
• Darwin's Finches, the Galapagos, and Natural Laboratories of Evolution
• Darwin–Wallace Theory of Evolution
• Developmental Biases on Morphological Evolvability
• Developmental-Genetic Toolkit for Evolutionary Developmental Biology
• Developmental Mechanisms Controlling Cell Fate, Evolution of
• Developmental Paleontology and Paleo-Evo-Devo
• Developmental Plasticity and Phenotypic Evolution
• Directed Evolution, History of
• Directional Selection and Adaptation
• Dispersal Biogeography
• Distance-Based Phylogenetic Inference
• Divergence and Diversification, Quantitative Genetics of
• E
• Ecological Evolutionary Developmental Biology
• Ecological Fitting and Novel Species Interactions in Nature
• Ecological Speciation and Its Consequences
• Effective Population Size
• Endogenous Retroviruses and Coevolution
• Endophytic Microbes, Evolution and Diversification of
• Endosymbiotic Theory
• VOLUME 2
• E
• Epigenetic Inheritance
• Epigenetics and Genome Evolution
• Evo-Devo: Regulatory and Protein-Coding Evolution in Plant Diversification
• Evolution and Agriculture I. The Evolution of Domestication
• Evolution and Agriculture II. Evolutionary Applications to Breeding
• Evolutionary Biology, History of
• Evolutionary Computation
• Evolutionary Genetics, History of
• Evolutionary Medicine I. An Overview and Applications to Cancer
• Evolutionary Medicine II. Use of the Comparative Method and The Animal Model
• Evolutionary Medicine III. Mismatch
• Evolutionary Medicine IV. Evolution and Emergence of Novel Pathogens
• Evolvability, Quantitative Genetics of
• F
• Founder Speciation
• Fungal Evolution: Aquatic–Terrestrial Transitions
• G
• Gene Interactions in Evolution
• Gene Networks Driving Development, Conservation and Evolution of
• Gene Origin, Sex Chromosomes and
• Genetic Architecture
• Genetic Drift, Models of Random
• Genetic Variation in Populations
• Genetic Variation, Maintenance of
• Genome Evolution’s Role in Developmental Evolution
• Genome Organization, Evolution of
• Genome Plasticity, Bacterial
• Genome Size and Structure, Bacterial
• Genotype-by-Environment Interaction
• Genotype to Phenotype: Insights from Evo-Devo
• Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution
• H
• Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium and Random Mating
• Hermaphrodites
• Homo, Diversification of
• Human Life Histories, Evolution and
• Hybrid Speciation
• I
• Inbreeding and Nonrandom Mating
• Industrial Melanism, History of
• Inheritance: From Quantitative Genetics to Evolutionary Stable Strategies
• Insects and Ecdysozoa, Diversification of
• Intraspecific Coevolutionary Arms Races
• Invasion Biogeography
• Invasive Species, Evolution and
• L
• Land Animals, Origins of
• Land Vertebrates, the Origin and Evolution of
• Lichen-Forming Fungi, Diversification of
• Life Histories, Axes of Variation in
• Life History: Age and Stage Structure
• Life-History Evolution, Human
• Life-History Evolution, Human Impacts on
• Life History Evolution in Guppies, Experimental Studies of
• Life-History Evolution in Island Populations of Birds
• Life History Evolution, Plants
• Life History Evolution: The Role of Mating Systems
• Life History Patterns
• Life History: Pike
• Life History Theory: Basics
• Life History Trade-offs
• Life History, What is?
• Linkage Disequilibrium: Population Genetics of Multiple Loci
• Lophotrochozoa, Diversification of
• M
• Macroevolution, Quantitative Genetics and
• Mammalian Diversification
• Mammals Everywhere
• Mammals, Origin of
• Mate Choice and Sexually Selected Traits
• Maternal Effects
• Mating and Parental Sex Roles, Diversity in
• Mating Systems, A Brief History of
• Mating Systems in A Changing Environment
• Mating Systems in Flowering Plants
• Mating Systems in Plants, Genome Evolution and
• Mating Tactics and Mating Strategies
• Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Inference
• VOLUME 3
• M
• Metazoans, Origins of
• Microbial Experimental Evolution
• Microbiome
• Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Coevolution
• Model Systems: The Key Roles of Traditional and New Models in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
• Modularity and Integration
• Modularity and Integration in Evo-Devo
• Molecular Evolution, Functional Synthesis of
• Molecular Evolution, History of
• Molecular Evolution, Models of
• Multivariate Quantitative Genetics
• Mutation and Genome Evolution
• Mutation, Population Genetic Models of
• Mutualism, the Evolutionary Ecology of
• Mycorrhizal Fungi, Evolution and Diversification of
• N
• Natural Selection, Introduction to
• Natural Selection, Measuring
• Neutral Evolution, Population Genetic Tests of
• Neutral Models of Genetic Drift and Mutation
• Noncoding DNA Evolution: Junk DNA Revisited
• Noncoding RNAs, Origin and Evolution of
• Novel Structures in Animals, Developmental Evolution of
• Novel Structures in Plants, Developmental Evolution of
• O
• Operational Sex Ratio
• Origin of Life, RNA World and
• Origins of Life, History of
• P
• Paleobiogeography and Fossils
• Paleobiological Revolution, History of
• Parallel and Convergent Molecular Evolution
• Parallel Speciation
• Parsimony Methods in Phylogenetics
• Pathogen Epidemiology
• Pest Management, Evolution and
• Philosophy, Evolutionary Biology and
• Phylogenetic Approach to Studying Developmental Evolution: A Model Clade Approach
• Phylogenetic Comparative Method
• Phylogenetic Invariants
• Phylogenetic Networks
• Phylogenetic Tree
• Phylogenetic Tree Comparison
• Phylogenetic Tree Distances
• Phylogeography
• Plant–Pollinator Interactions and Flower Diversification
• Plasmid Driven Evolution of Bacteria
• Polyandry and Female Postcopulatory Choice
• Polyploid Speciation
• Population Structure and Gene Flow
• Predation and Parasitism
• Protein Biophysics and Evolution
• Protist Diversification
• Q
• Quantitative Genetics in Natural Populations
• Quantitative Genetic Variation
• Quantitative Genetic Variation, Comparing Patterns of
• Quantitative Trait Variation, Molecular Basis of
• Quaternary Biogeography and Climate Change
• R
• r- and K-Selection in Fluctuating Environments, Theory of
• Recombination and Molecular Evolution
• Recombination and Selection
• Recombination in Bacterial Populations
• Regulatory and Coding Changes in Developmental Evolution, Roles of
• Reinforcement
• Reproductive Isolation, Postzygotic
• Reproductive Isolation, Prezygotic
• Responses to Climate Change, Evolution and
• Ring Species
• RNA Viruses, Evolution of
• Robustness and Evolvability in Molecular Evolution
• Rooting Trees, Methods for
• S
• Schools of Classification
• Searching Tree Space, Methods for
• VOLUME 4
• S
• Secondary Metabolites, the Role in Plant Diversification of
• Security, Evolution and
• Seedless Land Plants, Evolution and Diversification of
• Selective Sweeps
• Sensory Systems: Molecular Evolution in Vertebrates
• Sequential Speciation
• Sex and Recombination in Snails
• Sex and Selfish Genetic Elements
• Sex Chromosome Evolution: Birth, Maturation, Decay, and Rebirth
• Sex Determination
• Sex, Evolution and Maintenance of
• Sexual Conflict
• Sexual Dimorphism
• Sexual Networks
• Sexual Selection, Theory of
• Shifting Balance Theory, Sewall Wright and
• Social Effects
• Sociobiology, History of
• Speciation, Chromosomal Rearrangements and
• Speciation Continuum
• Speciation Genes
• Speciation Genomics
• Speciation, Geography of
• Speciation, Sexual Conflict and
• Speciation, Sexual Selection and
• Speciation-with-Gene-Flow
• Species Concepts and Speciation
• Species Concepts: Viral Quasispecies
• Species Trees, Inference of
• Sperm Competition
• Supertree Methods, Phylogenetic
• Support Measures, Phylogenetic Tree
• Symbiogenesis, History of
• Symbiosis, History of
• Symbiosis, Introduction to
• Synthetic Theory of Evolution, History of
• Systems in Evolutionary Systems Biology
• T
• Transposable Elements, Population Genetics of
• U
• Unikonts, Evolution and Diversification of (with Emphasis on Fungal-Like Forms)
• V
• Vertebrates, the Origin of
• Vicariance Biogeography
• W
• Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape, History of
• Water Transport, the Role in Plant Diversification of
• Authors