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The origin of species, revisited : a Victorian who anticipated modern developments in Darwin's theory /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston, Ont. :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- PART ONE: SEARCH FOR A VICTORIAN
- 1 Evolution of Languages and Species
- 2 Variation, Heredity, Phenotypic and Reproductive Selection
- 3 Darwin's Difficulties
- 4 Hybrid Sterility
- 5 Physiological Selection
- 6 Failure of Meiotic Pairing
- 7 Conjugation of the Chromosomes
- 8 Why Sex?
- PART TWO: THE SPECIES-DEPENDENT COMPONENT OF BASE COMPOSITION
- 9 Molecular Biology
- 10 Primary and Secondary Levels of Information
- 11 The Dominance of the Genome Phenotype
- 12 Initiation of Speciation
- 13 Relationship to Physiological SelectionPART THREE: THE DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE OF SPECIES
- 14 Selfish Genes and Selfish Groups
- 15 Slow Fine-Tuning of Sequences
- 16 Fine-Tuning of RNAs
- 17 RNAs Driving on the Wrong Side
- 18 Protein Concentration and Genetic Dominance
- 19 Sex Chromosomes
- PART FOUR: THE DARWINIAN STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH
- 20 The Philosopher
- 21 Huxley and the Philosopher's Wife
- 22 We Commend This State of Mind
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
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