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Speciation in Birds

First  Edition©2008  Trevor Price

ISBN:9780974707785

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Demonstrating why this field is still as vibrant as ever, Speciation in Birds explores the roles of natural selection and sexual selection in the most authoritative and modern synthesis on the subject to date. The book discusses how speciation contributes to some of the great patterns in species diversity, emphasizing the integration of behavior, ecology, and genetics throughout.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Geography and Ecology
3. Geographical variation
4. Parapatric Speciation
5. Ecological speciation
6. Ecological controls and speciation on continents
7. Behavior and ecology
8. Geographical isolation and the causes of island endemism
9. Social Selection
10. Social selection and the evolution of song
11. Divergence in response to increased sexual selection
12. Social selection and ecology
13. Species recognition
14. Mate choice at the end of speciation
15. Hybrid zones
16. Genetic incompatibility
17. Conclusions

Trevor Price

Trevor Price has spent his professional career studying speciation in birds, working for his doctoral thesis on the famous adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands. For the past 20 years he has been studying speciation and adaptive radiation in the Himalayas. He is Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago.