The Geometry of Evolution: Adaptive Landscapes and Theoretical Morphospaces

By G. R. McGhee. 2006

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What Darwin Got Wrong (2010, background): “The minute proportion of the theoretical morpho-spaces of life that are actually occupied (McGhee 2007; Raup 1966) is something that the theory of natural selection cannot account for.”
Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space (2012, background): “Thismay explain the long-standing observation that most of morphospace is empty (7): Phenotypes such as animal shapes found in nature fill only a small fraction of morphospace.”
The Concept of Morphospaces in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology: Mathematics and Metaphors (2009, methodology): “They are used both in mathematical modeling (Gavrilets 2004), and even more so in the graphical description of various arguments in evolutionary biology (e.g., McGhee 2007).”
Developmental Dynamics and G-Matrices: Can Morphometric Spaces be Used to Model Phenotypic Evolution? (2008, background): “…for visualizing multivariate phenotypic similarities and differences; for statistical analysis of phenotypes to one another or to external factors such as environment, sex, age, or geography; and for generating theoretical phenotypic models (Bookstein 1991; Dryden and Mardia 1998; McGhee 2007).”