Inhaltsangabe1. Speciation Processes in the Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Plants and Animals; E.M. Craddock. 2. Codon Bias and the Context Dependency of Nucleotide Substitutions in the Evolution of Plastid DNA; B.R. Morton. 3. The Origin of the Mineral Skeleton in Chordates; J. Dzik. 4. Evolutionary Stable Configurations: Functional Integration and the Evolution of Phenotypic Stability; G.P. Wagner, K. Schwenk. Acknowledgements. Appendix A. Appendix B. References.