UID:
edoccha_9958101008202883
Format:
1 online resource (211 p.)
ISBN:
0-12-800417-7
Content:
Evolution: Components and Mechanisms introduces the many recent discoveries and insights that have added to the discipline of organic evolution, and combines them with the key topics needed to gain a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of evolution. Each chapter covers an important topic or factor pertinent to a modern understanding of evolutionary theory, allowing easy access to particular topics for either study or review. Many chapters are cross-referenced. Modern evolutionary theory has expanded significantly within only the past two to three decades. In recent ti
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Quote; Evolution: Components and Mechanisms; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Biography; Chapter 1 - Evolution; Chapter 2 - Natural Selection; Chapter 3 - Adaptation; Chapter 4 - Competition; Chapter 5 - Genetics Basics & Mutations; MUTATIONS; Chapter 6 - Transposable Elements, Viruses, and Genomes; Chapter 7 - Horizontal Gene Transfer; Chapter 8 - Neutral Evolution; THE REDUNDANT GENETIC CODE; NEUTRAL NONSILENT MUTATIONS; MUTATIONS IN INTRONS; MUTATIONS IN OTHER NONCODING DNA; SOME CHROMOSOMAL MUTATIONS CAN BE NEUTRAL; Chapter 9 - Genetic Drift
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Chapter 10 - EnvironmentChapter 11 - Development; Chapter 12 - Symbiosis; Chapter 13 - Speciation; ALLOPATRIC SPECIATION; SYMPATRIC SPECIATION; PARAPATRIC SPECIATION; SPECIATION BY POLYPLOIDY; SPECIATION WITHOUT CLADOGENESIS; Chapter 14 - Micro- and Macroevolution; Chapter 15 - Homology; Chapter 16 - Imperfection; Chapter 17 - The Fossil Record and the History of Life; Chapter 18 - Contingency and Evolution; Chapter 19 - Opportunity; Chapter 20 - Phylogeny-The Tree of Life; Chapter 21 - Progress-Purpose?; References; Appendix 1 - MOST OF THE SOURCES OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE-A SYNOPSIS
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Appendix 2 - OTHER RECOMMENDED BOOKS ONEVOLUTION: WITH PERSONAL NOTESIndex
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-800348-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-64241-8
Language:
English
