Chasing the red queen [electronic resource] : the evolutionary race between agricultural pests and poisons / Andy Dyer.
2014
SB957 .D94 2014
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Title
Chasing the red queen [electronic resource] : the evolutionary race between agricultural pests and poisons / Andy Dyer.
Author
Dyer, Andy, author.
ISBN
9781610915205 electronic book
1610915208 electronic book
9781610915182
9781610915199
1610915208 electronic book
9781610915182
9781610915199
Published
Washington, DC : Island Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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SB957 .D94 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
632/.95042
Summary
In the race to feed the worlds seven billion people, we are at a standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly potent and sophisticated pesticides, yet in 2014, the average percentage of U.S. crops lost to agricultural pests was no less than in 1944. To use a metaphor the field of evolutionary biology borrowed from Alice in Wonderland, farmers must run ever faster to stay in the same placei.e., produce the same yields. With Chasing the Red Queen, Andy Dyer offers the first book to apply the Red Queen Hypothesis to agriculture. Dyer examines one of the worlds most pressing problems as a biological case study. He presents key concepts, from Darwins principles of natural selection to genetic variation and adaptive phenotypes. Understanding the fundamentals of ecology and biology is the first step to playing the Red Queen, and escaping her unwinnable race. The books novel frame will help students, researchers, and policy-makers alike apply that knowledge to the critical task of achieving food security.
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