Table of Contents

PART I: Historical Perspective
1: W. Anderson, K. Kaneshiro, L. V. Giddings: H. L. Carson: Interviews Toward an Intellectual History
2: W. B. Provine: Founder Effects and Genetic Revolutions in Microevolution and Speciation: A Historical Perspective
PART II: Plant Speciation and the Founder Principle
3: G. D. Carr et al.: Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance: A Comparison with Hawaiian Picture-Winged Drosophila
4: F. R. Ganders: Adaptive Radiation in Hawaiian Bidens
5: G. L. Stebbins: Plant Speciation and the Founder Principle
PART III: Founder Effects and Chromosomal Evolution
6: J. S. Yoon: Chromosomal Evolution and Speciation in Hawaiian Drosophila
7: Is There a Role for Meiotic Drive in Karyotype Evolution? T. W. Lyttle
PART IV: Founder Effects in Molecular Evolution and Developmental Biology
8: J. A. Hunt et al.: Genomic DNA Variation Within and Between Closely Related Species of Hawaiian Drosophila
9: W. J. Dickinson: Gene Regulation and Evolution
PART V: A Classical Counterpoint
10: E. Nevo: The Nature and Role of Peripheral Isolates in the Origin of Species
PART VI: Founder Effects and Sexual Selection
11: J. R. Powell: The Effects of Founder-Flush Cycles on Ethological Isolation in Laboratory Populations of Drosophila
12: W. B. Heed: Origin of Drosophila of the Sonoran Desert: In Search for a Founder Event
13: K. Y. Kaneshiro: The Dynamics of Sexual Selection and Founder Effects in Species Formation
PART VII: Founder Effects and Genetic Changes in Natural Populations
14: J. V. Neel: Human Evolution and the "Founder-Flush" Principle
15: A. T. Ohta: The Genetic Basis of Adaptive Evolution in the Grimshawi species complex of Hawaiian Drosophila
16: A. R. Templeton: Founder Effects and the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation
17: H. L. Carson: Genetic Imbalance, Realigned Selection and the Origin of Species

Reviews

"These essays explore the nature and importance of the "founder effect"--a genetic phenomenon considered to be increasingly important to the formation of species in plants and animals . . . . Contributors include such well-known longtime researchers as James V. Neel and Ledyard Stebbins. For an audience sophisticated in genetics, including upper-division undergraduates and graduate students." --Choice
"This book should be consulted by all those interested in speciation. It is a definitive statement of ideas from the "Hawaiian school" of evolution, including a new theory from Kaneshiro about the effect of founder events on female preferences. Many of the papers are of wider interest than the title of the volume might suggest, and address such diverse subjects as adaptive radiation in plants, karyotypic evolution, sexual selection, and the genetics of the
Yanomama Indians." --The Quarterly Review of Biology