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Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution.
This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution. From a Neodarwinian viewpoint, it integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity. It examines topics including genetics and speciation, development and evolution, the constructional a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; CHAPTER 1 Macroevolution: The Problem and the Field; CHAPTER 2 Genealogy, Systematics, and Macroevolution; CHAPTER 3 Genetics, Speciation, and Transspecific Evolution; CHAPTER 4 Development and Evolution; CHAPTER 5 The Constructional and Functional Aspects of Form; CHAPTER 6 Patterns of Morphological Change in Fossil Lineages; CHAPTER 7 Patterns of Diversity, Origination, and Extinction; CHAPTER 8 A Cambrian Explosion?; CHAPTER 9 Coda: Ten Theses; Glossary of Macroevolution.
- ReferencesAUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.