Philopatry, Inbreeding, and the Evolution of Sex

Download or read book Philopatry, Inbreeding, and the Evolution of Sex written by William M. Shields and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive synthesis, William M. Shields introduces a provocative new hypothesis linking the previously disconnected topics of philopatry, inbreeding, and sex. Shields draws widely from theory and data in genetics, ecology, and behavior in exploring the evolutionary causes and consequences of philopatric (localized) and vagrant dispersal, inbreeding and outbreeding mating systems, and asexual and sexual reproduction. His resulting hypothesis, that philopatry evolved because it increases inbreeding intensity and that inbreeding has survival value, has profound implications for the future study of evolutionary theory.