| Series |
Vienna series in theoretical biology
Vienna series in theoretical biology. ^A691420
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| Contents |
Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Bilaterian Animals: An Adaptive Landscape Perspective / George R. McGhee -- The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture: A Systematic Comparative Analysis / Peter N. Peregrine -- If Group Selection is Weak, What Can Agriculture Learn from Fungus-Farming Insects? / R. Ford Denison -- The Sociobiology of Domestication / Duur K. Aanen and Niels P.R. Anten -- Lifetime Commitment between Social Insect Families and their Fungal Cultivars Complicates Comparisons with Human Farming / Jacobus J. Boomsma -- Fungus-Growing Termites: An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective / Judith Korb -- Mycangia Define the Diverse Ambrosia Beetle-Fungus Symbioses / Chase G. Mayers, Thomas C. Harrington, Peter H.W. Biedermann -- Agricultural and proto-agricultural symbioses in ants / Ana Ješovnik and Ted R. Schultz -- Convergence and Divergence in the Evolution of Agriculture: Plant Farming by Ants / Guillaume Chomicki -- Coevolution in the Arable Battlefield: Pathways to Crop Domestication, Cultural Practices and Parasitic Domesticoids / Dorian Q. Fuller and Tim Denham -- Convergent Adaptation and Specialization of Eukaryotic Pathogens across Agricultural Systems / Nicole Gerardo -- Evaluating Potential Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Phenotypic Change in the Human Skeleton over the Agricultural Transition / Lumila P. Menéndez and Laura T. Buck -- Hammond's Law: A Mechanism Governing the Development and Evolution of Form in Domesticated Organisms / Richard Gawne and Kenneth Z. McKenna -- The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Fungus-Farming Ants / Ted R. Schultz. |
| Abstract |
"An edited collection about the evolution of agriculture in humans and insects"-- Provided by publisher |
| Abstract |
"During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2021000486 |
| ISBN | 9780262543200 paperback |
| ISBN | 0262543206 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
