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John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural select...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bonner, John Tyler (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Biodiversity.
Evolution (Biology).
Variation (Biology).
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
animal societies.
asexual production.
biological diversity.
biological randomness.
cell societies.
division of labor.
eukaryotic microorganisms.
eurkaryotes.
evolution.
evolutionary biology.
geological time.
insect societies.
large mammals.
large organisms.
microorganism.
morphological randomness.
morphology.
multicellularity.
natural selection.
organisms.
randomness.
sex.
sexual cycle.
size increase.
size.
social organisms.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Life and the Riddle of Randomness
  • 2. Time, Size, and Complexity
  • 3. Small Organisms and Neutral Morphologies
  • 4. The Evolution of the Decrease of Randomness
  • 5. An Exception: Where Small Organisms Suppress Randomness
  • 6. The Division of Labor: Two Cases of the Return of Randomness in Higher Forms
  • 7. Envoi
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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