Εισαγωγή στην πληθυσμιακή βιολογία

by Edward O. Wilson, William H. Bossert, Λυδία Μανιάτη (translator)

Η έκδοση αυτή έρχεται να καλύψει ένα σημαντικό κενό στην ελληνική επιστημονική βιβλιογραφία. Πρόκειται για διδακτικό εγχειρίδιο που θεωρείται διεθνώς ως "κλασική" εισαγωγή στην πληθυσμιακή βιολογία, αφού επιτυγχάνει: να καλύψει όλες τις θεμελιώδεις έννοιες του συγκεκριμένου επιστημονικού τομέα, να είναι διδακτικά αποτελεσματικό, συνδέοντας ομαλά τους βιολογικούς νόμους με τη μαθηματική τους διατύπωση παραθέτοντας πλήθος υποθετικών και πραγματικών παραδειγμάτων, και να είναι επιστημολογικά εύστοχο, προτάσσοντας την ακρίβεια και αυστηρότητα της μαθηματικής έκφρασης αντί των μακροσκελών περιγραφικών προσεγγίσεων. Το βιβλίο απευθύνεται στον έλληνα βιολόγο -επιστήμονα και φοιτητή- αλλά και σε καθέναν που ενδιαφέρεται για τους τομείς της οικολογίας, της ταξινομίας, της δημογραφίας, της εξέλιξης και της βιογεωγραφίας.

Genres: Science, Biology, Nonfiction, Evolution

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Edward Osborne Wilson, sometimes credited as E.O. Wilson, was an American biologist, researcher, theorist, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. He was the Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Concise, Still Important Introduction to the Mathematical Foundations of Population Biology

Still in print, unchanged, after forty years, Edward O. Wilson and William H. Bossert’s “A Primer of Population Biology” is still a basic, important introduction to the mathematical foundations of population biology. It is replete with many examples of mathematical equations, including derivations of important equations such as the differential equation for equilibrium in the MacArthur – Wilson Theory of Island Biogeography. More than half of the book is devoted to basic concepts of population genetics, another third to basic concepts of ecology from elementary population growth to calculating r and k selection, and finally, a concluding chapter devoted to island biogeography, especially as seen through the MacArthur – Wilson Theory. Complicated concepts are explained simply via their concise prose, though potential readers should realize that this is a book that will be of interest primarily to students and scientists in population genetics, population ecology, conservation biology and related aspects of biology, including epidemiology and evolutionary paleobiology.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure I'd understand it all now, but a basic text in population bio.

[Olymar]

good