The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading scientists, promote the exchange of ideas and encourage the formation of international collaborations.

This book contains the most essential contributions presented at the 14^th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2010. It comprises 19 chapters organized according to the following categories:

- Evolutionary Biology Concepts

- Biodiversity and Evolution

- Macroevolution

- Genome Evolution

Offering an up-to-date overview of recent results in...

This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 16th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2012 in Marseilles. The aims of these annual meetings, which gather together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists, are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations. The first chapter deals with the history of a great discovery: The first experiments on ascidian and sea urchin egg fertilization. The remaining contributions are grouped under the following categories:

- Evolutionary biology concepts

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