The mathematics of Darwin's legacy
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The mathematics of Darwin's legacy
(Mathematics and biosciences in interaction)
Birkhäuser, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 the interface between evolutionary biology and mathematics the book is the outcome of a conference commemorating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his book "On the origin of species". Its chapters vary in format between general introductory and state-of-the-art research texts in biomathematics, in this way addressing both students and researchers in mathematics, biology and related fields. Mathematicians looking for new problems as well as biologists looking for rigorous description of population dynamics will find this book fundamental.
Table of Contents
Preface.- What Changes Has Mathematics Made to the Darwinian Theory? by W.J. Ewens.- The Mathematics of Darwin's Theory of Evolution: 1859 and 150 Years Later by P. Schuster.- Some Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Genetics by R. Burger.- Extinction, Persistence, and Evolution by P. Jagers.- Group Theory in Homogeneous Populations (Rescuing Darwin from the mud) by P. Taylor.- Evolutionary Dynamics of Collective Action by J.M. Pacheco, F.C. Santos, M.O. Souza and B. Skyrms.- On Kin and Group Selection, and the Haystack Model by V.A.A. Jansen.- Population Formulation of Adaptative Meso-evolution: Theory and Numerics by S. Mirrahimi, B. Perthame, E. Bouin and P. Millien.- Random Modeling of Adaptive Dynamics and Evolutionary Branching by S. Meleard.- 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 M. Gyllenberg, J.A.J. (Hans) Metz and R. Service.- Bibliography.- Index.
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