TY - BOOK ID - 8491098 TI - Evolutionary quantitative genetics PY - 1997 SN - 041212971X 1461540801 PB - New York (N.Y.): Chapman and Hall DB - UniCat KW - 576.5 KW - 575.16 KW - 631.523 KW - 575.822 KW - Evolutionary genetics KW - Quantitative genetics KW - 575.1 KW - Quantitative inheritance KW - Genetics KW - Genetic evolution KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Cell interactions. Intercellular junctions. Cell populations. Cell behaviour in culture KW - Developmental genetics. Genetic basis of ontogenesis KW - Applied genetics KW - Heredity and variation KW - Heredity. Inheritance KW - Evolutionary genetics. KW - Quantitative genetics. KW - Biological Processes KW - Genetic Processes KW - Genetic Phenomena KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Biology KW - Biological Phenomena KW - Biological Science Disciplines KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Biological Evolution KW - Genetic Variation KW - Genetics, Population KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - 575.1 Heredity. Inheritance KW - 575.822 Heredity and variation KW - 631.523 Applied genetics KW - 575.16 Developmental genetics. Genetic basis of ontogenesis KW - 576.5 Cell interactions. Intercellular junctions. Cell populations. Cell behaviour in culture KW - Evolutionary biology. KW - Human genetics. KW - Evolutionary Biology. KW - Human Genetics. KW - Heredity, Human KW - Human biology KW - Physical anthropology KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8491098 AB - The impetus for this book arose out of my previous book, The Evolution of Life Histories (Roff, 1992). In that book I presented a single chapter on quanti tative genetic theory. However, as the book was concerned with the evolution of life histories and traits connected to this, the presence of quantitative genetic variation was an underlying theme throughout. Much of the focus was placed on optimality theory, for it is this approach that has proven to be extremely successful in the analysis of life history variation. But quantitative genetics cannot be ig nored, because there are some questions for which optimality approaches are inappropriate; for example, although optimality modeling can address the ques tion of the maintenance of phenotypic variation, it cannot say anything about genetic variation, on which further evolution clearly depends. The present book is, thus, a natural extension of the first. I have approached the problem not from the point of view of an animal or plant breeder but from that of one interested in understanding the evolution of quantitative traits in wild populations. The subject is large with a considerable body of theory: I generally present the assumptions underlying the analysis and the results, giving the relevant references for those interested in the intervening mathematics. My interest is in what quantitative genetics tells me about evolutionary processes; therefore, I have concentrated on areas of research most relevant to field studies. ER -