The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding

Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

By: Nancy Wilmsen Thornhill (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 August 1993 | Edition Number 1

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Inbreeding, the mating of close kin, and outbreeding, the mating of distant relatives or unrelated organisms, have long been important subjects to evolutionary biologists. Inbreeding reduces genetic diversity in a population, increasing the likelihood that genetic defects will become widespread and deprive a population of the diversity it may need to cope with its environment. Most plants and animals have evolved behavioral and morphological mechanisms to avoid inbreeding. However, today many endangered species exist only in small, very isolated populations where inbreeding is unavoidable, so it has become a concern for conservationists. In this volume, twenty-six experts in evolution, behavior, and genetics examine the causes and consequences of inbreeding.

The authors ask whether inbreeding is as problematic as biologists have thought, under what ecological conditions inbreeding occurs, and whether organisms that inbreed have mechanisms to dampen the anticipated problems of reduced genetic variation. The studies, including theoretical and empirical work on wild and captive populations, demonstrate that many plants and animals inbreed to a greater extent than biologists have thought, with variable effects on individual fitness. Graduate students and researchers in evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ecology, and conservation biology will welcome this wide-ranging collection.

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Genetics excluding Medical Evolution Zoology & Animal Sciences Animal Ecology

Sex, Mating Systems, Inbreeding, and Outbreeding
Theoretical Perspectives
Theory and Data Pertinent to the Relationship between Heterozygosity and Fitness
The Evolution of Inbreeding in Haploidiploid Organisms
Genetic Incompatibility as a Eugenic Mechanism
Inbreeding and the Evolution of Social Behavior
The Statics and Dynamics of Mating System Evolution
Small Populations, Inbreeding, and Speciation
The Natural and Unnatural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding
Empirical Perspectives
Population Structure, Optimal Outbreeding and Assortative Mating in Angiosperms
Inbreeding and Outbreeding in marine Invertebrates
Inbreeding and Outbreeding in Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles
Evidence for and Consequences of Inbreeding in the Cooperative Spiders
Inbreeding in Birds Ian Rowley
The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding in Small Mammals
Inbreeding and Outbreeding in Captive Populations of Wild Animal Species
Dispersal, Kinship, and Inbreeding in African Lions
Inbreeding and Outbreeding in Primates: What's Wrong with "The Dispersing Sex"?
Epilogue
Inbreeding in Egypt and This Book: A Childish Perspective
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