UID:
almahu_9948026034702882
Format:
1 online resource (657 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-28502-5
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9786612285028
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0-08-054246-8
Content:
The data of evolutionary biology have changed in a very radical way in recent years, the most significant input to this revolution being the advances made in developmental genetics. Another recent development is a noticeable shift away from extreme specialization in evolutionary biology. In this, we are perhaps to be reminded of George Gaylord Simpson's comments: ""evolution is an incredibly complex but at the same time integrated and unitary process."" The main objective of this book is to illustrate how natural adaptive systems evolve as a unity--with the particular objective of identifying
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Evolution of Adaptive Systems; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Chapter 1. Adaptation and the Adaptive System; Chapter 2. Spatial Structure of the Adaptive Niche; Chapter 3. Dynamics of the Adaptive Niche; Chapter 4. The Selection Interface; Chapter 5. Adaptive Equilibrium; Chapter 6. The Cladogenetic Selection Interface; Chapter 7. Adaptive Potential, Biophysical Paradigms, and the Selectional Attractor; Chapter 8. Evolutionary Mode; Chapter 9. Structural Paradigms of Development; Chapter 10. Adaptive Capacity and Potential in the Mechanisms of Development
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Chapter 11. Developmental Genetics, Adaptive Capacity, and PotentialChapter 12. Mutation and Realization of Adaptive Potential; Chapter 13. Chromosome Structure and Adaptive Topography; Chapter 14. Evolutionary Impediments and the Adaptive Substrate for Evolutionary Change; Chapter 15. Darwinian versus Thompsonian Factors in Evolution; Chapter 16. The Morphogenetic Topology of Evolutionary Change; Chapter 17. Architecture of the Phyletic Lineage; Chapter 18. Evolutionary Rate and Episodic Evolution; Chapter 19. Stasis and the Adaptive Substrate; Chapter 20. Extinction-Lineage to Clade
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Chapter 21. From Lineage to TaxonEPILOGUE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE GENERAL THEORY; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-134740-0
Language:
English
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