Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Horizons: Papers in Honour of Eviatar NevoSolomon P. Wasser Evolution is the most profound of human ideas integrating all natural phenomena: cosmic, biological, and cultural into a continuous universal change. This volume deals with evolutionary observations, experiments, and theories contributing to a deeper understanding of the evolutionary process, th honoring the 75 birthday of Eviatar (Eibi) Nevo. I first met Eibi in 1966 when he was a Fellow in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and working mostly on cricket frog vocalization and speciation in the United States. His unique discovery of pipid fossil frogs in the Israeli Early Cretaceous, central Negev, is possibly the largest world collection of ancient fossil frogs. Our acquaintance developed into mutual friendship and admiration. Since then our long-lasting friendship has included a visit to Israel, enabling me to follow Eibi's major scientific achievements, in particular, his founding of the Institute of Evolution in the University of Haifa and now the pending establishment of the International Graduate School of Evolution. The research program of Eibi Nevo, in collaboration with numerous colleagues and students in Israel and across the world, encompasses diverse perspectives of evolutionary biology and biodiversity of genes, populations, species, and ecosystems integrating modem and classical evolutionary approaches, molecular and organismal. They deal with model organisms in all forms from bacteria through plants, fungi, animals, and humans conducted over local, regional, and global scales. |
Contents
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List of Contributors | lxix |
Acknowledgments | lxxv |
the Stress Theories 17 | 16 |
Assessing Population Subdivision | 35 |
Convergent Evolution in Extremely Halophilic | 43 |
Pseudogenes Are Not Junk DNA | 177 |
Genome Signature Comparisons of the Proteobacteria | 195 |
A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Cross Validation 209 | 208 |
Modern View on the Origin and Phylogenetic Reconstruction | 231 |
Macroevolutionary Events and the Origin of Higher Taxa | 265 |
Humankinds Place in a Phylogenetic Classification of | 293 |
Relation to Cellular Senescence 313 | 312 |
Cultural | 329 |
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