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Modular evolution : how natural selection produces biological complexity /
"Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, includ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 From natural selection. to the history of nature; 2 From the units of inheritance to the origin of species; 3 Multicellularity and the developmental code; 4 Life cycle evolution: life and death of the soma; 5 Sex and its consequences:the transition that never happened; 6 Animal societies:the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions; 7 The new 'Chain of Being':hierarchical evolution and biological complexity; References; Index.