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Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of disciplines as varied as paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, and genetics. This book brings together many of today's pioneers in evolutionary biology to describe the latest advances and explain why a cross-disciplinary and integrated approach to research questions is so essential. Contributors discuss the origins of biological diversity, mechanisms of evolutionary change at the molecular and developmental levels, morphology and behavior, and the ecology of adaptive radiations and speciation. They highlight the mutual dependence of organisms and their environments, and reveal the different strategies today's researchers are using in the field and laboratory to explore this interdependence. Peter and Rosemary Grant--renowned for their influential work on Darwin's finches in the Galápagos--provide concise introductions to each section and identify the key questions future research needs to address. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Myra Awodey, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Rowan D. H. Barrett, May R. Berenbaum, Paul M. Brakefield, Philip J. Currie, Scott V. Edwards, Douglas J. Emlen, Joshua B. Gross, Hopi E. Hoekstra, Richard Hudson, David Jablonski, David T. Johnston, Mathieu Joron, David Kingsley, Andrew H. Knoll, Mimi A. R. Koehl, June Y. Lee, Jonathan B. Losos, Isabel Santos Magalhaes, Albert B. Phillimore, Trevor Price, Dolph Schluter, Ole Seehausen, Clifford J. Tabin, John N. Thompson, and David B. Wake.

Evolution (Biology) --- Angraecum striatum. --- Barombi Mbo lake. --- Beipiaosaurus inexpectus. --- Bicyclus anynana. --- Caudipteryx dongi. --- Confuciusornis. --- Darwinian evolution. --- Deinonychus. --- Fisherian selection. --- Gasterosteus. --- Greya mitellae. --- Hawaii. --- Herrerasaurus. --- Heucherina. --- adaptive loss. --- adaptive radiation. --- adaptive walk. --- allospecies. --- amber fossils. --- antagonism. --- ascertainment bias. --- beetle horns. --- behavior. --- behavioral ecology. --- biodiversity problem. --- biomechanics. --- biotic drift. --- bounded diffusion. --- bryozoans. --- catastrophism. --- coalescent model. --- colonization. --- commensalism. --- convergent evolution. --- cultural inheritance. --- ecogenomics. --- ecological diversity. --- ecological factors. --- epistasis. --- extended phenotype. --- field experiments. --- field studies. --- freshwater fish. --- gene expression analysis. --- genetic mapping. --- genomics era. --- habitat effects. --- host shifts. --- hybridization. --- hypomorphic mutations. --- imaginal discs.