Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Geography and Ecology 3 Geographical variation 4 Parapatric Speciation 5 Ecological speciation 6 Ecological controls and speciation on continents 7 Behavior and ecology 8 Geographical isolation and the causes of island endemism 9 Social Selection 10 Social selection and the evolution of song 11 Divergence in response to increased sexual selection 12 Social selection and ecology 13 Species recognition 14 Mate choice at the end of speciation 15 Hybrid zones 16 Genetic incompatibility 17 Conclusions

About the Author

​Trevor Price has spent his professional career studying speciation in birds, working for his doctoral thesis on the famous adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands. For the past 20 years he has been studying speciation and adaptive radiation in the Himalayas. He is Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

"This is an insightful and original work, comprehensive and up to date, and covers many interesting ideas and is particularly good at the inclusion of recent genetic information on the process of speciation in birds. It will be the best work available on its topic, the behavioral and genetic causes and consequences of speciation in birds" Robert Payne, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology