Evolutionary Biology - From Concept to Application - P. Pontarotti (Springer, Biologia, Biology
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Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application
Pierre Pontarotti
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Evolutionary Biology
from Concept to Application
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Dr.PierrePontarotti
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Université d’Aix-Marseille/CNRS
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ISBN:978-3-540-78992-5 e-ISBN:978-3-540-78993-2
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-78993-2
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Preface
Every biological system is the outcome of its evolutionary history; therefore, the
deciphering of the evolutionary history is of tremendousimportance to understand
biology.
Since 1997,scientistsofdifferentdisciplineswhosharea deepinterestinevolu-
tionary biology concepts and knowledgehave held an “evolutionarybiology meet-
ingatMarseilles”inordertodiscusstheirresearch,exchangeideas,andstartcollab-
orations. Lately, scientists interested in the application of the concepts have joined
thegroup.
This book is a selection of what I think are the most representativetalks of 11th
meetingasthey representan up-to-dateoverviewofconceptsof evolutionand how
these concepts can be used to understand biology in general. The book comprises
severaltopicsthatwehavearrangedindifferentsubcategories:modelizationofevo-
lution (Yu: Chap. 1, Meade and Pagel: Chap. 2), concepts in evolutionary biology
(Toll-Riera et al: Chap. 3, Erenpreisa and Cragg: Chap. 4, Mikhalevich: Chap. 5,
Raineri: Chap. 6), knowledge (Shimizu: Chap. 7, Hwang et al: Chap. 8), and ap-
plied evolutionarybiology (Barth´el´emy et al: Chap. 9, Hilu and Barthet: Chap. 10,
Krygerand Scholtz: Chap. 11, Swynghedauw:Chap. 12, Levasseur and Pontarotti:
Chap.13).Ihopethatthisbookwillbeusefulnotonlytoevolutionarybiologistsbut
also to biologists in generaland that it will help to producea neededepistemologi-
cal shift in the differentdomainsof biology—genomics,postgenomics,etc.—from
correlativeapproachesto evolutionaryapproaches.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the other members of the sci-
entific committee—Etienne Pardoux, Philippe Monget, Bernard Swynghedauw,
Etienne Danchin, Vincent Laudet, and Michel Milinkovitch, to the organiza-
tional committee—Virginie Lopez-Rascol, Olivier Chabrol, and Julie Perrot, to
the sponsor—Universit´e de Provence, CNRS, GDR BIM, R´egion PACA, Conseil
Gen´eral 13, Marseille Provence M´etropole, and to Association pour l’Etude de
l’EvolutionBiologiquethatorganizesthe meetings.I also wish to thankthe staff at
Springerfortheircooperation.
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