Cover; Pragmatic Evolution; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; REFERENCES; Part 1 Evolution, Ecology and Conservation; 1 Evolution, missing links and climate change: recent advances in understanding transformational macroevolution; The main issues; Missing links: a perceptional problem; Fishes to tetrapods; Macroevolution of birds from dinosaurs; Looking forward; Applications of macroevolutionary studies; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; 2 Evolutionary perspectives in conservation genetics; The main issues; Historical prelude.The major issues from an evolutionary perspectiveLooking forward; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; Part II Evolution and Food Production; 3 Evolution in agriculture; The main issues; Resistance to insecticides in insect pests and their natural enemies; Evolutionary basis of insect pest status; Evolutionary basis of invertebrate predator-prey dynamics; Competition vs. cooperation; Looking forward; Conclusions; REFERENCES; 4 The evolutionary ecology of pollination and the functional biology of agricultural plants; The main issues; Agriculture depends on pollination.Evolution of floral investment strategiesPollinator behaviour; Agriculture as biological invasion; Looking forward; Pollen limitation and ovule number; Pollinator behaviour; Pollination networks and agricultural invasion; Conclusions; REFERENCES; 5 The dawn of Darwinian fishery management; The main issues; Support from field studies; Support from laboratory studies; Support from model-based studies; Resilience and productivity; Mitigating fisheries-induced evolution; Looking forward; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; Part III Evolution and Medicine.6 Evolution: a basic science for medicineThe main issues; Many applications; Infectious disease; Tradeoffs; Constraints; Looking forward; Bodies are not shaped for health; Defences; The body is not a machine; Conclusions; REFERENCES; 7 Evolutionary insights for immunological interventions; The main issues; Evolution of immune systems; Implications for immunological intervention; An entanglement: NFkB and TNFa; Virulence antigen vaccines; Evolutionary effects of vaccination: evasion or escalation?; Looking forward; The adenovirus vaccination experience as a model for evasion.Implications for understanding evasionConclusions; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; 8 Neuroevolution and neurodegeneration: two sides of the same coin?; The main issues; Phylogeny and ontogeny of the brain; Alzheimer's disease (AD); AD and natural selection; Looking forward; Genes for AD: why did they persist?; Diagnosis and therapy: an evolutionary perspective; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; 9 Evolution, music and neurotherapy; The main issues; Neural processing of music and language; Evolutionary considerations; Music, a social glue; Musical training; Looking forward.