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Variation : a Central Concept in Biology.
This book expands upon Darwin's theory of natural selection, a central concept in evolutionary biology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington :
Elsevier,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- CONTENTS; Variation from Darwin to the Modern Synthesis; The Statistics of Variation; Landmark Morphometrics and the Analysis of Variation; Variation in Ontogeny; Constraints on Variation from Genotype through Phenotype to Fitness; Developmental Origins of Variation; Canalization, Cryptic Variation, and Developmental Buffering: A Critical Examination and Analytical Perspective; Mutation and Phenotypic Variation: Where is the Connection? Capacitators, Stressors, Phenotypic Variability, and Evolutionary Change; Within Individual Variation: Developmental Noise versus Developmental Stability.
- Developmental Constraints, Modules, and EvolvabilityDevelopmental Regulation of Variability; Role of Stress in Evolution: From Individual Adaptability to Evolutionary Adaptation; Environmentally Contingent Variation: Phenotypic Plasticity and Norms of Reaction; Variation and Life-History Evolution; Antisymmetry; Variation in Structure and Its Relationship to Function: Correlation, Explanation, and Extrapolation; A.