Overview
- Focuses on the impact of early life experience on the adult phenotype, from its functions to its evolutionary meaning
- Multi-species and inter-disciplinary to enable the reader to assess the topic from multiple perspectives
- Includes novel ideas and approaches to understand the evolution of development strategies
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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Development is a complex and highly dynamic process involving the cross talk among genes, maternal effects and environmental circumstances. Widespread evidence from plant to animal species show that variation in developmental conditions can modulate life history trajectories and influence key traits, such as growth, reproduction, and senescence. These effects are not limited to a single generation but can also be passed on future generations. This book aims to bring together studies of early life effects from the fields of evolutionary biology, global change biology, and biomedicine to synthesise and improve current knowledge of the mechanisms involved, and how variation in early life conditions translates into Darwinian fitness outcomes. Relying on examples of organisms’ responses to the ongoing and future environmental challenges of the Anthropocene, this book takes a novel approach to address the adaptive meaning of early life effects. The book has a broad scientific approach, targeting eco-evolutionary biologists, behavioural biologists, eco-physiologists, eco-toxicologists, as well as epidemiologists and biomedical scientists.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Evolutionary Meaning of Development: How and Why Early Life Experience Generate Diversity
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Endogenous Mechanisms Underlying the Interactions Between the Individual and Its Early-Life Environment
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Anthropocene Opens New Horizons to Reveal the Adaptive Meaning of Developmental Plasticity
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Reviews
“This volume explores a variety of case studies around a small set of themes. The most significant feature of this book concerns how it brings together issues in developmental biology to the Anthropocene. It serves as a call for better integration of the study of development alongside evolutionary biology, ecology, and conservation biology. It is also a fascinating examination of how small-scale processes such as development can affect large-scale biological diversity.” (Jay Odenbaugh, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 98 (3), September, 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Costantini is Professor at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. His research combines studies of mechanisms and functions to understand the causes and consequences of phenotypic variation in animals. He authored 152 publications, including two books as author. He was the recipient of the International Prize for a scholar of Organism Evolutionary Zoology issued from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 2013. He has been included in the list of top 1% of the most-cited scientists across all scientific fields created by the University of Stanford in 2019.
Valeria Marasco's research focuses on proximate factors underlying the effects of changing environmental conditions on phenotypic flexibility and life-history strategies with an emphasis on early life effects. Since 2017, she works at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioural Research (Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria) as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She was initially funded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2017-2019) and currently by a Lise Meitner FWF Fellowship.
Valeria Marasco's research focuses on proximate factors underlying the effects of changing environmental conditions on phenotypic flexibility and life-history strategies with an emphasis on early life effects. Since 2017, she works at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioural Research (Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria) as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She was initially funded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2017-2019) and currently by a Lise Meitner FWF Fellowship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development Strategies and Biodiversity
Book Subtitle: Darwinian Fitness and Evolution in the Anthropocene
Editors: David Costantini, Valeria Marasco
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90131-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90130-1Published: 16 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90131-8Published: 15 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 316
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology, Behavioral Sciences, Zoology, Animal Physiology, Plant Physiology