From: Ecology | Date: December 1, 1994| Author: Dobson, F. Stephen | COPYRIGHT 1994 Ecological Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Does breeding between close relatives occur frequently in natural populations of plants and animals? In nature, does inbreeding or outbreeding cause detrimental depression of fitness of offspring? Is there an "optimal" level of inbreeding or outbreeding? These are a few of the fascinating questions raised by several authors in Nancy Thornhill's volume.

The book contains theoretical and empirical chapters from a symposium at the 1989 meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. Pe...