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In Search of the Causes of Evolution In Search of the Causes of Evolution: From Field Observations to Mechanisms • Edited by Peter R. Grant B. Rosemary Grant & p r i n c e t o n u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s p r i n c e t o n a n d o x f o r d Copyright © 2010 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved ISBN: 978-0-691-14681-2 ISBN (pbk.): 978-0-691-14695-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2010931117 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in ITC Caslon 224 Printed on acid-free paper ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents List of Contributors ix Preface xi IntroductIon to SectIon I The Origins of Biological Diversity 1 Chapter One 5 Andrew H. Knoll and David T. Johnston The Big Picture: A Tripartite View of Life and Environments through Time Chapter Two 25 David Jablonski Macroevolutionary Trends in Time and Space Chapter Three 44 Philip J. Currie Dinosaurs Live! Chapter Four 65 Christopher N. Balakrishnan, June Y. Lee, and Scott V. Edwards Phylogeography and Phylogenetics in the Nuclear Age IntroductIon to SectIon II Mechanisms, Molecules, and Evo-Devo 89 Chapter Five 93 Paul M. Brakefield and Mathieu Joron The Flexibility of Butterfly Wing Color Patterns and Evolution in Morphospace Chapter Six 115 David Kingsley Genetics, Geology, and Miracles CONTENTS Chapter Seven 131 Joshua B. Gross and Clifford J. Tabin Evolutionary Genetics of Pigmentation Loss in the Blind Mexican Cavefish Chapter Eight 149 Douglas J. Emlen A Developmental View of Exaggerated Growth and Conditional Expression in the Weapons of Sexual Selection IntroductIon to SectIon III Morphology and Behavior 173 Chapter Nine 177 Mimi A. R. Koehl How Does Morphology Affect Performance in Variable Environments? Chapter Ten 192 Hopi E. Hoekstra In Search of the Elusive Behavior Gene Chapter Eleven 211 May R. Berenbaum There Must Be Finches—Charles Darwin, Prickly Pears, and Pollination Biology Chapter Twelve 228 John N. Thompson The Adaptive Radiation of Coevolving Prodoxid Moths and Their Host Plants: Greya Moths and Yucca Moths IntroductIon to SectIon IV Ecological Diversity 247 Chapter Thirteen 251 Trevor Price, Albert B. Phillimore, Myra Awodey, and Richard Hudson Ecological and Geographical Influences on the Allopatric Phase of Island Speciation vi CONTENTS Chapter Fourteen 282 Ole Seehausen and Isabel Santos Magalhaes Geographical Mode and Evolutionary Mechanism of Ecological Speciation in Cichlid Fish Chapter Fifteen 309 Jonathan B. Losos A Tale of Two Radiations: Similarities and Differences in the Evolutionary Diversification of Darwin’s Finches and Greater Antillean Anolis Lizards Chapter Sixteen 332 Rowan D. H. Barrett and Dolph Schluter Clarifying the Mechanisms of Evolution in Sticklebacks Using Field Studies of Natural Selection on Genes Chapter Seventeen 347 Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant The Book and the Future: Perspective and Prospective Chapter Eighteen 360 David B. Wake A Festival for Rosemary and Peter Grant Index 367 vii