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Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. Experimental evolution deliberately duplicates evolutionary processes-forcing life histories to evolve, producing adaptations to stressful environmental conditions, and generating lineage splitting to create incipient species. This unique volume summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining current techniques and applications, and presenting the field's full range of research-from selection in the laboratory to the manipulation of populations in the wild. It provides work on such key biological problems as the evolution of Darwinian fitness, sexual reproduction, life history, athletic performance, and learning.

Animal breeding --- Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Heredity --- Domestic animals --- Breeding --- Experiments. --- Research. --- adaptation. --- allele. --- athletic performance. --- biology. --- charles darwin. --- controlled field manipulations. --- darwinian fitness. --- ecology. --- environmental conditions. --- evolution. --- evolutionary dynamics. --- evolve. --- experimental approaches. --- experimental evolution. --- gene flow. --- genetic drift. --- genetic variation. --- incipient species. --- laboratory experiments. --- learning. --- life history. --- lineage splitting. --- mutation. --- natural selection. --- phenomenon. --- populations in the wild. --- sexual reproduction. --- theoretical.