02227nam a2200325 i 450099100347001970753620021217151406.0001117s1998 uk a b 001 0 eng d0198501714b11815127-39ule_instLE00301245ExLDip.to Biologiaeng578.0922Grant, Peter R.531297Evolution on islands /edited by Peter R. GrantOxford ; New York :Oxford University Press,1998xiv, 334 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm"Based on contributions to a Royal Society Discussion Meeting in Dec. 1995" . - Pref.Includes bibliographical references and indexPatterns on islands and microevolution - The reproductive biology and genetics of island plants - Evolution of small mammals - The maintenance of genetic polymorphism in small island populations - Molecular and morphological evolution within small islands - Speciation - Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of evolution on islands - Island hopping in Drosophila - Speciation and hybridization of birds on islands - Ecological speciation in postglacial fishes - How 'molecular leakage' can mislead us about island speciation - - Radiations, communities, and biogeography - Ecological and evolutionary determinants of the species-area relationship in Caribbean anoline lizards - Lake level fluctuations and speciation in rock-dwelling cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa - Islands in Amazonia - Biotic drift or the shifting balance- did forest islands drive the diversity of warningly coloured butterflies? - Adaptive plant evolution on islands - Epilogue and questions.Evolution (Biology)Island ecologyRoyal Society <Great Britain>Royal Society Discussion Meeting <1995 ;Great Britain>.b1181512712-09-1118-12-02991003470019707536LE003 578.09 GRA01.01 (1998)12003000019285le003-E0.00-l- 00000.i1206454318-12-02Evolution on islands899012UNISALENTOle00301-01-00ma -enguk 01