| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Vienna series in theoretical biology |
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Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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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 |
| Summary |
"An edited collection about the evolution of agriculture in humans and insects"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy) |
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution |
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Origin.
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Domestication.
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Insect rearing.
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Beneficial insects -- Evolution
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Crops -- Evolution.
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Food & society.
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Evolution.
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Insects (entomology)
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Agriculture -- Origin
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Crops -- Evolution
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Domestication
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Insect rearing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schultz, Ted R., editor.
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Gawne, Richard, editor.
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Peregrine, Peter N. (Peter Neal), 1963- editor.
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| ISBN |
0262367572 |
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9780262367578 |
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9780262367561 |
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0262367564 |
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