The Mathematics of Darwin’s Legacy

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chalub, Fabio A. C. C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rodrigues, José Francisco (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Springer Basel, 2011.
• Σειρά: Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Biomathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.; Applications of Mathematics.

The book presents a general overview of mathematical models in the context of evolution. It covers a wide range of topics such as population genetics, population dynamics, speciation, adaptive dynamics, game theory, kin selection, and stochastic processes. Written by leading scientists working at th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• What changes has mathematics made to the Darwinian theory? by Warren J. Ewens
• The mathematics of Darwin’s theory of evolution: 1859 and 150 years later by Peter Schuster
• Some Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Genetics by Reinhard Bürger
• Extinction, Persistence, and Evolution by Peter Jagers
• Group Theory in Homogeneous Populations (Rescuing Darwin from the mud) by Peter Taylor
• Evolutionary dynamics of collective action by Jorge M. Pacheco, Francisco C. Santos, Max O. Souza and Brian Skyrms
• On kin and group selection, and the haystack model by Vincent A. A. Jansen
• Population formulation of adaptative meso-evolution: theory and numerics by Sepideh Mirrahimi, Benoît Perthame, Emeric Bouin and Pierre Millien
• Random Modeling of Adaptive Dynamics and Evolutionary Branching by Sylvie Méléard
• Thoughts on the geometry of meso-evolution: collecting mathematical elements for a postmodern synthesis by J.A.J. (Hans) Metz
• When do optimisation arguments make evolutionary sense? by Mats Gyllenberg, J.A.J. (Hans) Metz and Robert Service
• Bibliography
• Index.