The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects - Couverture souple

Livre 13 sur 17: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
 
9780262543200: The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262543206 ISBN 13 : 9780262543200
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2022

Synopsis

Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution.

During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. 
 
The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants.
 

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À propos de l?auteur

Ted R. Schultz is Research Entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Richard Gawne is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University. Peter N. Peregrine is Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Lawrence University.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262543206
ISBN 13 
9780262543200
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
338
Éditeur
Schultz Ted R, Gawne Richard, Peregrine Peter N
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