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• catalog contributor b544281.
• catalog created "1986.".
• catalog date "1986".
• catalog date "1986.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1986.".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. 273-324.".
• catalog description "Introduction. Definition of natural selection ; Relationship to genetic drift and evolution ; Restricted meanings of "natural selection" ; Modes of selection ; Summary -- Philosophical comments. Natural selection and tautology ; Force, action, and intensity ; Fitness and adaptation ; Two more useful distinctions ; Summary -- Methods for the detection of natural selection in the wild. Method I: Correlation with environmental factors ; Method II: Comparisons between closely related sympatric species ; Method III: Comparisons between unrelated species living in similar habitats ; Method IV: Deviation from formal null models ; Method V: Long-term studies of trait frequency distributions ; Method VI: Perturbation of natural populations ; Method VII: Genetic demography or cohort analysis ; Method VIII: Comparisons among age classes or life-history stages ; Methods IX and X: Predictions about natural selection ; Method IX: Nonequilibrium predictions of changes in trait frequency distributions ; Method X: Equilibrium predictions about trait frequency distributions ; How to detect natural selection in the wild ; Summary.".
• catalog description "Problems in detecting natural selection. Reasons for lack of detection of natural selection when it exists ; Reasons for apparent detection of selection when it is nonexistent ; Reasons for mislcading detection of selection ; Summary -- Direct demonstrations of natural selection in the wild. Characteristics of demonstrative studies ; Observations on the distribution of kinds of traits selected ; Observations on the distribution of modes of selection ; Observations on the distribution of modes of selection ; General comments on detecting natural selection ; Summary -- Estimating selection coefficients and differentials. Introduction to the methods ; Direct univariate methods ; Univariate means fitness methods ; Multivariate methods ; The use of selection coefficients and differentials ; Summary -- Distribution of selection coefficients and differentials in natural populations. Methods ; Observed distributions ; A comparison of observed and expected distributions ; Summary -- The importance of natural selection. Four views ; Origin and replacement ; Conclusion: Natural selection and evolution ; Summary -- Appendix 1. Multiple regression and the estimation of selection differentials -- Appendix 2. Comparisons between selection differentials and regression coefficients using simulated data of selection with known properties.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 336 p. :".
• catalog identifier "069108386X (alk. paper) :".
• catalog identifier "0691083878 (pbk. : alk. paper) :".
• catalog isPartOf "Monographs in population biology ; 21".
• catalog issued "1986".
• catalog issued "1986.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog subject "Natural selection.".
• catalog subject "QH375 .E53 1986".
• catalog subject "Selection, Genetic.".
• catalog subject "W1 MO568L v.21 1986".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. Definition of natural selection ; Relationship to genetic drift and evolution ; Restricted meanings of "natural selection" ; Modes of selection ; Summary -- Philosophical comments. Natural selection and tautology ; Force, action, and intensity ; Fitness and adaptation ; Two more useful distinctions ; Summary -- Methods for the detection of natural selection in the wild. Method I: Correlation with environmental factors ; Method II: Comparisons between closely related sympatric species ; Method III: Comparisons between unrelated species living in similar habitats ; Method IV: Deviation from formal null models ; Method V: Long-term studies of trait frequency distributions ; Method VI: Perturbation of natural populations ; Method VII: Genetic demography or cohort analysis ; Method VIII: Comparisons among age classes or life-history stages ; Methods IX and X: Predictions about natural selection ; Method IX: Nonequilibrium predictions of changes in trait frequency distributions ; Method X: Equilibrium predictions about trait frequency distributions ; How to detect natural selection in the wild ; Summary.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Problems in detecting natural selection. Reasons for lack of detection of natural selection when it exists ; Reasons for apparent detection of selection when it is nonexistent ; Reasons for mislcading detection of selection ; Summary -- Direct demonstrations of natural selection in the wild. Characteristics of demonstrative studies ; Observations on the distribution of kinds of traits selected ; Observations on the distribution of modes of selection ; Observations on the distribution of modes of selection ; General comments on detecting natural selection ; Summary -- Estimating selection coefficients and differentials. Introduction to the methods ; Direct univariate methods ; Univariate means fitness methods ; Multivariate methods ; The use of selection coefficients and differentials ; Summary -- Distribution of selection coefficients and differentials in natural populations. Methods ; Observed distributions ; A comparison of observed and expected distributions ; Summary -- The importance of natural selection. Four views ; Origin and replacement ; Conclusion: Natural selection and evolution ; Summary -- Appendix 1. Multiple regression and the estimation of selection differentials -- Appendix 2. Comparisons between selection differentials and regression coefficients using simulated data of selection with known properties.".
• catalog title "Natural selection in the wild / John A. Endler.".
• catalog type "text".