The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by Ted R. Schultz

Description: The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne "An edited collection about the evolution of agriculture in humans and insects"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution.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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Series Foreword ixIntroduction 1I Comparative Analyses of Human and Nonhuman Agriculture1 Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Bilaterian Animals: An Adaptive Landscape Perspective 72 The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture: A Systematic Comparative Analysis 31II Conflict and Cooperation in Human and Nonhuman Agriculture3 If Group Selection is Weak, What Can Agriculture Learn from Fungus-Farming Insects? 494 The Sociobiology of Domestication 615 Lifetime Commitment between Social Insect Families and Their Fungal Cultivars Complicates Comparisons with Human Farming 73III The Diversity of Insect Agriculture6 Fungus-Growing Termites: An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective 897 Mycangia Define the Diverse Ambrosia Beetle-Fungus Symbioses 1058 Agricultural and Proto-Argicultural Symbioses in Ants 1439 Plant Farming by Ants: Convergence and Divergence in the Evolution of Agriculture 161IV Patterns of Convergence in Agriculturalists, Domesticates, and Parasites10 Coevolution in the Arable Battlefield: Pathways to Crop Domestication, Cultural Practices, and Parasitic Domesticoids 17711 Convergent Adaptation and Specialization of Eukaryotic Pathogens across Agricultural Systems 20912 Evaluating Potential Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Phenotypic Change in the Human Skeleton over the Agricultural Transition 22513 Hammonds Law: A Mechanism Governing the Development and Evolution of Form in Domesticated Organisms 25714 The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Fungus-Farming Ants 281Contributors 315Index 317 Details ISBN0262543206 Author Richard Gawne Language English ISBN-10 0262543206 ISBN-13 9780262543200 DEWEY 630.9 Year 2022 Format Paperback Edited by Peregrine, Peter N. Imprint MIT Press Country of Publication United States Publisher MIT Press Ltd Series Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Pages 352 Illustrations 54 black and white illustrations Publication Date 2022-02-22 AU Release Date 2022-02-22 NZ Release Date 2022-02-22 US Release Date 2022-02-22 UK Release Date 2022-02-22 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134702710;

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