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Natural Selection and Evolutionary Change by Padian, Kevin is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Natural Selection and Evolutionary Change about?
In modern biology, natural selection is widely treated as the central mechanism of evolution. Darwin built his greatest book on it; largely ignored for the latter part of the 19th Century, its centrality was restored during the Modern Synthesis of the 1930s. Since then, its importance has sometimes been exaggerated into claims that selection drives adaptation toward optimality. Its effects have been studied in captive and wild populations of all sorts of organisms, and in past as well as present biotas. But it has also been downplayed as only one of many factors of evolutionary change, an editor with no creative force, incapable of guiding any real change in lineages. Natural selection is as intrinsic to ecological theory as to evolutionary theory, and links the two fields as few other concepts do. But like nearly all population processes, its effects on evolution in the long run remain an open question, difficult to test directly.
Who reads Natural Selection and Evolutionary Change?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
- Author
- Padian, Kevin
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 2475-2622)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)