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Ecological adaptations for breeding in birds
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Year: 1968 Publisher: London: Methuen,

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Adaptation and natural selection : a critique of some current evolutionary thought
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Year: 1966 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton university press,

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Les insectes : rois de l'adaptation
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ISBN: 9782759233342 2759233340 Year: 2021 Publisher: Versailles: Quæ,

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Si les insectes dominent le monde animal par leur nombre, c'est que ce sont les champions de l'adaptation dans tous les domaines. La pression exercée par les prédateurs a fait apparaître de nombreuses évolutions qui assurent la sécurité des individus : se confondre avec l'environnement, se déguiser en un insecte venimeux, sécréter des substances amères ou toxiques qui vous rendent immangeable... Mais comment font-ils ? La nécessité de la reproduction a également généré des stratégies de séduction très bien rodées comme les émissions sonores chez les grillons, lumineuses chez les vers luisants, ou encore la diffusion de phéromones aphrodisiaques chez les mouches et les papillons. Ces signaux lumineux ou odorants peuvent faire l'objet de tromperies et même de fake news. La possession d'une partenaire va d'une délicate cour amoureuse avec offrandes jusqu'à la brutalité de la punaise de lit. Tout est bon pour conquérir la femelle ! L'alimentation n'est pas en reste avec les incroyables mandibules des fourmis de l'enfer ou bien la digestion extra orale des moustiques, un ingénieux système qui s'active lors de la piqûre. Les carnivores construisent des pièges astucieux tandis que les herbivores et floricoles effectuent des migrations aériennes longues de milliers de kilomètres pour trouver l'herbe ou le nectar nourriciers. Et comment faire face aux milieux inhospitaliers ? Pour supporter la neige et la glace, des mouches synthétisent un antigel. D'autres insectes résistent au passage d'une voiture sans être écrasés ou fabriquent leur propre lumière pour vivre dans l'obscurité des grottes. Certaines larves de mouches prospèrent dans les mares de pétrole ou les eaux sursalées des grands lacs américains. Partez à la découverte de ce feu d'artifice d'adaptations étonnantes qui expliquent si bien le succès écologique des insectes.


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L'adaptation et l'évolution
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Year: 1922 Publisher: Paris: Chiron,

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Comment les pattes viennent au serpent : essai sur l'étonnante plasticité du vivant
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ISBN: 2082102807 9782082102803 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

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From groups to individuals : evolution and emerging individuality
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ISBN: 9780262018722 0262018721 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge: MIT Press,

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Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and other fields. Although organisms have served for centuries as nature’s paradigmatic individuals, science suggests that organisms are only one of the many ways in which the natural world could be organized. When living beings work together—as in ant colonies, beehives, and bacteria-metazoan symbiosis—new collective individuals can emerge. In this book, leading scholars consider the biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of these new collective individuals from associations of living beings. The topics they consider range from metaphysical issues to biological research on natural selection, sociobiology, and symbiosis. The contributors investigate individuality and its relationship to evolution and the specific concept of organism; the tension between group evolution and individual adaptation; and the structure of collective individuals and the extent to which they can be defined by the same concept of individuality. These new perspectives on evolved individuality should trigger important revisions to both philosophical and biological conceptions of the individual.

Adaptationism and optimality
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ISBN: 0521598362 052159166X 0511609086 9780521591669 9780521598361 9780511609084 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. The theory of adaptationism argues that natural selection contains sufficient explanatory power in itself to account for all evolution. However, there are differing views about the efficiency of the adaptation model of explanation. If the adaptationism theory is applied, are energy and resources being used to their optimum? This book presents an up-to-date view of this controversy and reflects the dramatic changes in our understanding of evolution that have occurred in the last twenty years. The volume combines contributions from biologists and philosophers, and offers a systematic treatment of foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues surrounding the theory of adaptationism. The essays examine recent developments in topics such as phylogenetic analysis, the theory of optimality and ess models, and methods of testing models.

Hidden order : how adaptation builds complexity
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ISBN: 0201442302 9780201442304 Year: 1996 Publisher: Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley,


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Les secrets du gène
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ISBN: 2020093251 9782020093255 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris: Odile Jacob,

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Génétique
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ISBN: 2705658289 9782705658281 Year: 1976 Publisher: Paris: Hermann,

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