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Biocomplexity. --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Modularity (Psychology). --- Natural selection.

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Coevolution-reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection-is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution analyzes how the biology of species provides the raw material for long-term coevolution, evaluates how local coadaptation forms the basic module of coevolutionary change, and explores how the coevolutionary process reshapes locally coevolving interactions across the earth's constantly changing landscapes. Picking up where his influential The Coevolutionary Process left off, John N. Thompsonsynthesizes the state of a rapidly developing science that integrates approaches from evolutionary ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, and molecular biology. Using models, data, and hypotheses to develop a complete conceptual framework, Thompson also draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.

Evolution. Phylogeny --- Coevolution. --- Biology. --- Genetics. --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Co-evolution --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- ecology, evolution, evolutionary, biology, biological, ecological, science, scientists, coevolution, change, species, natural selection, biodiversity, interactions, survival, reproduction, adaptation, coadaptation, genetics, phylogeography, systematics, biochemistry, physiology, populations, dynamics, displacement, convergence.

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Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology, physiology, and genetics; moreover, art, engineering, and mathematics rely on modular design principles. This collection broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, evolutionary computation, developmental and evolutionary biology, linguistics, mathematics, morphology, paleontology, physics, theoretical chemistry, philosophy, and the arts.The contributors debate and compare the uses of modularity, discussing the different disciplinary contexts of "modular thinking" in general (including hierarchical organization, near-decomposability, quasi-independence, and recursion) or of more specialized concepts (including character complex, gene family, encapsulation, and mosaic evolution); what modules are, why and how they develop and evolve, and the implication for the research agenda in the disciplines involved; and how to bring about useful cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer on the topic. The book includes a foreword by the late Herbert A. Simon addressing the role of near-decomposability in understanding complex systems.

Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection. --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Modularity (Psychology) --- Biocomplexity. --- Natural selection --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Biocomplexity --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Evolution --- Biological complexity --- Complexity, Biological --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Faculty psychology --- Modules (Psychology) --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biodiversity --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Heredity --- Human information processing --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution --- BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General

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It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the mass media there are many bitter disputes between today's new Darwinians and their opponents, often over religion. But the 'neo-Darwinian paradigm' is not as simple or as seamless as either its advocates or its opponents would sometimes have us believe. Biology is in a state of development which defies the standard stereotypes. The papers in this volume, written by some of the leading philosophers in the field, bring out many of the fascinating and complex issues which arise in current attempts to account for life and its development.

Biology --- General ethics --- Animal evolution --- Animals--Evolution --- Animaux--Evolution --- Biological evolution --- Biologische evolutie --- Darwinism --- Darwinisme --- Dieren--Evolutie --- Evolutie (Biologie) --- Evolution (Biologie) --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution biologique --- Origin of species --- Philosophy --- Animals --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Vitalism --- Arts and Humanities --- Biology - Philosophy --- Philosophy.

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All of life is a game, and evolution by natural selection is no exception. The evolutionary game theory developed in this 2005 book provides the tools necessary for understanding many of nature's mysteries, including co-evolution, speciation, extinction and the major biological questions regarding fit of form and function, diversity, procession, and the distribution and abundance of life. Mathematics for the evolutionary game are developed based on Darwin's postulates leading to the concept of a fitness generating function (G-function). G-function is a tool that simplifies notation and plays an important role developing Darwinian dynamics that drive natural selection. Natural selection may result in special outcomes such as the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). An ESS maximum principle is formulated and its graphical representation as an adaptive landscape illuminates concepts such as adaptation, Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, and the nature of life's evolutionary game.

Evolution --- Natural selection --- Game theory --- Théorie des jeux --- Mathematical models --- Modèles mathématiques --- Game theory. --- Mathematical models. --- Théorie des jeux --- Modèles mathématiques --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematics --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Evolution (Biology) --- Heredity --- Philosophy --- Creation --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Teleology