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The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines - permeates both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science. The focus of this 2006 book is to demonstrate to the reader that the adaptive landscape concept can be put into actual analytical practice through the usage of theoretical morphospaces - geometric spaces of both existent and non-existent biological form - and to demonstrate the power of the adaptive landscape concept in understanding the process of evolution. The adaptive landscape concept further allows us to take a spatial approach to the concepts of natural selection, evolutionary constraint and evolutionary development. For that reason, this book relies heavily on spatial graphics to convey the concepts developed within these pages, and less so on formal mathematics.

Evolution (Biology) --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Morphology --- Mathematical models --- Mathematical models. --- Biological form --- Biological structure --- Comparative morphology --- Form in biology --- Structure in biology --- Anatomy, Comparative --- Morphogenesis --- Environment --- Biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological fitness --- Genetics --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental --- Evolution (Biology) - Mathematical models --- Adaptation (Biology) - Mathematical models --- Morphology - Mathematical models --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology

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This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling techniques and novel instrumentation separated into individual chapters written by paleontologists with expertise in the given methodology. Each chapter outlines the strengths and limitations of specific numerical or technological approaches, and ultimately applies the chosen method to a real fossil dataset or sample type. A unifying theme throughout the book is the evaluation of fossils during the prologue and epilogue of one of the most exciting events in Earth History: the Cambrian radiation.

Evolution (Biology) -- Mathematical models. --- Evolutionary paleobiology -- Mathematical models. --- Paleoecology -- Cambrian -- Mathematical models. --- Paleoecology -- Methodology. --- Paleoecology -- Proterozoic -- Mathematical models. --- Paleontology -- Cambrian -- Mathematical models. --- Paleontology -- Methodology. --- Paleontology -- Proterozoic -- Mathematical models. --- Evolutionary paleobiology --- Paleontology --- Paleoecology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Biology --- Geology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Evolution --- Mathematical models --- Methodology --- Geobiology. --- Earth sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Sedimentology. --- Statistics. --- Materials science. --- Earth Sciences. --- Statistical Theory and Methods. --- Characterization and Evaluation of Materials. --- Quantitative Geology. --- Statistical methods. --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Paleontology . --- Mathematical statistics. --- Surfaces (Physics). --- GeologyxMathematics. --- Physics --- Surface chemistry --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Mathematics --- Statistical inference --- Statistics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Probabilities --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Petrology --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Statistical methods --- Statistics . --- Geology—Statistical methods. --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical science --- Econometrics