40 years of evolution : Darwin's finches on daphne major island Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: xxxii, 400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780691160467 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0691160465 (hardback : alk. paper)
- Forty years of evolution
- 598.07232098665 G767F 23
- QL696.P246 G7324 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-387) and index.
Speciation, adaptive radiation, and evolution -- Daphne finches : a question of size -- Heritable variation -- Natural selection and evolution -- Breeding ecology and fitness -- A potential competitor arrives on Daphne -- Competition and character displacement -- Hybridization -- Variation and introgression -- Long-term trends in hybridization -- Long-term trends in natural selection -- Speciation -- Speciation by introgressive hybridization -- The future of finches on Daphne -- Themes and issues -- Generalization -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. Appendix 1.1. Daphne plants ; Appendix 1.2. Measurements of finches ; Appendix 1.3. Other species of Darwin's finches ; Appendix 3.1. Mapping breeding locations ; Appendix 3.2. Annual changes in measurements ; Appendix 5.1. Extra-pair mating ; Appendix 5.2. Visitors and predation ; Appendix 9.1. Variation and mortality ; Appendix 10.1. On the dangers of extrapolation ; Appendix 10.2. Plumage ; Appendix 11.1. Samples of measurements for selection analyses ; Appendix 13.1. Identification of breeders ; Appendix 17.1. Nestling beak color polymorphism.
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