TY - BOOK ID - 7015406 TI - The geometry of evolution : adaptive landscapes and theoretical morphospaces PY - 2007 SN - 052184942X 9780521849425 9780511618369 9781107407497 9780511261169 0511261160 0511260598 9780511260599 1107164850 9781107164857 1280749172 9781280749179 9786610749171 6610749175 0511259344 9780511259340 0511618360 0511319967 9780511319969 0511259999 9780511259999 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Adaptation (Biology) KW - Morphology KW - Mathematical models KW - Mathematical models. KW - Biological form KW - Biological structure KW - Comparative morphology KW - Form in biology KW - Structure in biology KW - Anatomy, Comparative KW - Morphogenesis KW - Environment KW - Biology KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Variation (Biology) KW - Biological fitness KW - Genetics KW - Environmental adaptation KW - Adaptation, Environmental KW - Evolution (Biology) - Mathematical models KW - Adaptation (Biology) - Mathematical models KW - Morphology - Mathematical models KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7015406 AB - 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. ER -