Inevitable evolution: Back to The Origin and beyond the 20th Century paradigm of contingent evolution by historical natural selection

Biological Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-294

  Witting, Lars ^a  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Arrow of time; Competitive interactions; Density dependence; Deterministic selection; Evolutionary transitions; Historical selection; Life history

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; METABOLIC RATE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SESSILE SPECIES; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 47749132647     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00043.x     Document Type: Review

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