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Adaptation and complex design /
"In December 2006, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium (featured as part of the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia series) on "Adaptation and Complex Design" to synthesize recent empirical findings and conceptual approaches towards understanding the evolutionary origins a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , , |
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | In the light of evolution ;
v. I. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction essay. Darwin's greatest discovery : design without designer / Francisco J. Ayala
- Part II. Epistemological approaches to biocomplexity assessment. Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexity / Robert M. Hazen, Patrick L. Griffin, James M. Carothers and Jack W. Szostak
- The theory of facilitated variation / John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner
- Between 'design' and 'bricolage' : genetic networks, levels of selection, and adaptive evolution / Adam S. Wilkins
- The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity / Michael Lynch
- Part III. From individual ontogeny to symbiosis : a hierarchy of complexity. Emerging principles of regulatory evolution / Benjamin Prud'homme, Nicolas Gompel and Sean B. Carroll
- Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life / Richard E. Michod
- Insect societies as divided organisms : the complexities of purpose and cross-purpose / Joan E. Strassmann and David C. Queller
- Symbiosis as an adaptive process and source of phenotypic complexity / Nancy A. Moran
- Part IV. Case studies : dissecting complex phenotypes. Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies / Francesca D. Frentiu, Gary D. Bernard, Cristina I. Cuevas, Marilou P. Sison-Mangus, Kathleen L. Prudic and Adriana D. Briscoe
- Plant domestication, a unique opportunity to identify the genetic basis of adaptation / Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Peter L. Morrell and Brandon S. Gaut
- An experimental test of evolutionary trade-offs during temperature adaptation / Albert F. Bennett and Richard E. Lenski
- Two routes to functional adaptation : Tibetan and Andean high-altitude natives / Cynthia M. Beall
- On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle horns / Douglas J. Emlen, Laura Corely Lavine and Ben Ewen-Campen
- Part 5. Concluding essay. Biological design in science classrooms / Eugene C. Scott and Nicholas J. Matzke.