LEADER 04778nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910462600303321 005 20211028030821.0 010 $a1-299-05154-5 010 $a1-4008-4726-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400847266 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330884 035 $a(EBL)1113401 035 $a(OCoLC)828794189 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971930 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11567854 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971930 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10945631 035 $a(PQKB)11553841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1113401 035 $a(OCoLC)827947192 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37128 035 $a(DE-B1597)447598 035 $a(OCoLC)979629876 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400847266 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1113401 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654370 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436404 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330884 100 $a20020813d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNiche construction$b[electronic resource] $ethe neglected process in evolution /$fF. John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Laland, and Marcus W. Feldman 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (489 p.) 225 1 $aMonographs in population biology ;$vno. 37 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-04438-4 311 0 $a0-691-04437-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [421]-455) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tTables --$tPreface --$t1. Introduction --$t2. The Evidence for Niche Construction --$t3. A Theoretical Investigation of the Evolutionary Consequences of Niche Construction --$t4. General Qualitative Characteristics of Niche Construction --$t5. Niche Construction and Ecology --$t6. Human Niche Construction, Learning, and Cultural Processes --$t7. Testing Niche Construction 1: Empirical Methods and Predictions for Evolutionary Biology --$t8. Testing Niche Construction 2: Empirical Methods, Theory, and Predictions for Ecology --$t9. Testing Niche Construction 3: Empirical Methods and Predictions for the Human Sciences --$t10. Extended Evolutionary Theory --$tAppendix 1: Model 1a --$tAppendix 2: Model 1b --$tAppendix 2: Model 1b --$tAppendix 3: Model 2 --$tAppendix 4: Models 3 and 4 --$tAppendix 5: Model 5 --$tGlossary of New Terms --$tBibliography (indexed) --$tIndex 330 $aThe seemingly innocent observation that the activities of organisms bring about changes in environments is so obvious that it seems an unlikely focus for a new line of thinking about evolution. Yet niche construction--as this process of organism-driven environmental modification is known--has hidden complexities. By transforming biotic and abiotic sources of natural selection in external environments, niche construction generates feedback in evolution on a scale hitherto underestimated--and in a manner that transforms the evolutionary dynamic. It also plays a critical role in ecology, supporting ecosystem engineering and influencing the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems. Despite this, niche construction has been given short shrift in theoretical biology, in part because it cannot be fully understood within the framework of standard evolutionary theory. Wedding evolution and ecology, this book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as additional evolutionary processes. The authors support their historic move with empirical data, theoretical population genetics, and conceptual models. They also describe new research methods capable of testing the theory. They demonstrate how their theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution, and how it offers an evolutionary basis for the human sciences. Already hailed as a pioneering work by some of the world's most influential biologists, this is a rare, potentially field-changing contribution to the biological sciences. 410 0$aMonographs in population biology ;$v37. 606 $aNiche (Ecology) 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 606 $aHuman ecology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNiche (Ecology) 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) 615 0$aHuman ecology. 676 $a577.8/8 700 $aOdling-Smee$b F. John$f1935-$01033496 701 $aLaland$b Kevin N$0610351 701 $aFeldman$b Marcus W$01033497 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462600303321 996 $aNiche construction$92452092 997 $aUNINA