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There are lots of great places to go when exploring the whys and hows of evolution. For this class, we recommend that you try SciTech Premium so that you can limit to news sources (great for inspiration), or to scholarly articles (if you need more specialized information).
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ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text) Includes all the databases in the Natural Science and Technology collections. It also provides full-text articles from scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Covers 1946-current.
Exploring Quorum Sensing
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The Essential Tension by ISBN: 9789402410525Publication Date: 2017-12-15Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group, and discusses implications for multilevel selection. The author proposes controversial ideas - ripe for modeling and testing! Skim or search for the examples by looking for "for example" or "recent study" in the text.
Exploring Mutualism
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Symbioses and Stress by ISBN: 9789048194483Publication Date: 2010-09-22Availability and more information from Catalyst...
In its original sense, symbioses cover all kinds of interactions among unrelated organisms, whereas in a narrower concept, the term is often referred to as mutualism. Evolutionary biology recognizes symbiosis as an integrative process, and most fundamental evolutionary innovations arose from cooperative symbioses. Explore the huge variety of aquatic and terrestrial mutualism represented in this volume!
Exploring Kin Selection
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Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory by ISBN: 0691183333Publication Date: 2019-01-08Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Kin Selection is the process of natural selection through indirect fitness. Chapter 10 is especially rich with examples and evidence relating to the various theories of Inclusive Fitness introduced in the previous chapters.
Exploring Parasitism
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Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites by ISBN: 0691120846Publication Date: 2006-12-31Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Robert Poulin provides an evolutionary ecologist's view of the biology of parasites.
Exploring Major Evolutionary Transitions
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Evolution and Transitions in Complexity by ISBN: 3319438018Publication Date: 2016-10-27Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Several chapters in this book point toward examples and prior scholarship on major evolutionary transitions, and chapters are set up to present contrasting views of the topic. Start by skimming through Chapter 10 "The Role of Structural Criteria in Transition Theory: A Focus on Organisms," and Chapter 12 "The Role of Structural Criteria in Transition Theory: A Focus on Systems of Interacting Organisms." The shorter "comments" that make up chapters 11 and 13 will offer differing views.
