Natural Selection in the Wild
Natural Selection in the Wild by John A. Endler, published by Princeton University Press in April 1986, is a comprehensive exploration of the effects of natural selection on various populations. This first edition spans 336 pages and is presented in English. The book addresses the complexities and challenges of studying natural selection in the wild, providing a thorough examination of methods, evidence, and the evolutionary context surrounding this fundamental biological concept.
Readers will find a detailed discussion on the direct demonstrations of selection across a diverse range of animals and plants. Endler highlights the broad distribution of observed magnitudes of selection in natural populations, challenging the notion that selection is typically weak in these contexts. The book emphasizes that while natural selection plays a crucial role in evolutionary processes, it is just one aspect of the broader mechanisms that drive changes in variant frequencies, without delving into their origins.
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Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of John Endler’s book. In it, he discusses the methods and problems involved in the demonstration and measurement of natural selection, presents the critical evidence for its existence, and places it in an evolutionary perspective.
Professor Endler finds that there are a remarkable number of direct demonstrations of selection in a wide variety of animals and plants. The distribution of observed magnitudes of selection in natural populations is surprisingly broad, and it overlaps extensively the range of values found in artificial selection. He argues that the common assumption that selection is usually weak in natural populations is no longer tenable, but that natural selection is only one component of the process of evolution; natural selection can explain the change of frequencies of variants, but not their origins.
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