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| Preface | |
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| The concept of the adaptive landscape | |
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| What is an adaptive landscape? | |
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| Modelling evolution in adaptive landscapes | |
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| Modelling natural selection in adaptive landscapes | |
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| Visualizing natural selection | |
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| Modelling directional selection | |
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| Modelling stabilizing selection | |
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| Modelling disruptive selection | |
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| Modelling less-than-optimum evolution | |
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| Evolutionary topology of adaptive landscapes | |
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| Why has evolution not ceased? | |
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| Modelling environmental and ecological change | |
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| Modelling evolutionary phenomena in adaptive landscapes | |
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| Evolution in geological time | |
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| Modelling convergent evolution | |
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| Modelling iterative evolution | |
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| Modelling speciation by cladogenesis | |
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| Modelling hyperdimensionality in adaptive landscapes | |
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| Are adaptive landscapes of heuristic value only? | |
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| The concept of the theoretical morphospace | |
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| What is a theoretical morphospace? | |
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| Procedural phases of theoretical morphospace analyses | |
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| Creating theoretical morphospaces: an example | |
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| Analysing the role of adaptive evolution in theoretical morphospaces | |
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| Functional analysis in theoretical morphospace | |
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| Adaptive significance of existing and nonexistent ammonoid form | |
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| Adaptive significance of existing and nonexistent brachiopod form | |
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| Adaptive significance of existing and nonexistent plant form | |
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| Analysing evolutionary phenomena in theoretical morphospaces | |
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| Analysing evolution in geological time | |
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| Analysing convergent evolution in theoretical morphospace | |
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| Analysing iterative evolution in theoretical morphospace | |
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| Analysing biodiversity crises in theoretical morphospace | |
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| Evolutionary constraint in theoretical morphospace | |
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| Potential causes of empty morphospace | |
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| Modelling geometric constraint | |
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| Modelling functional constraint | |
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| Modelling phylogenetic constraint | |
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| Modelling developmental constraint | |
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| Analysing evolutionary constraint in theoretical morphospaces | |
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| Mapping geometric constraint boundaries | |
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| Mapping functional constraint boundaries | |
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| Analysing intrinsic constraints | |
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| Modelling the evolution of intrinsic constraints | |
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| Evolutionary constraint and the phenomenon of convergent evolution | |
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| Is the concept of phylogenetic constraint of heuristic value only? | |
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| Evolutionary development in theoretical morphospace | |
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| The concept of developmental constraint | |
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| Transformation theory and theoretical morphospaces | |
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| Epigenetic landscapes and theoretical morphospaces | |
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| Analysing development in theoretical morphospace | |
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| Theoretical developmental morphospaces? | |
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| How does an organism come to be? | |
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| There is much to be done... | |
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| Adaptive landscapes and theoretical morphospaces | |
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| Current progress in theoretical morphospace analyses | |
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| What more is to be done? | |
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| The re-emergence of the science of morphology | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |