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Evolution and escalation : an ecological history of life /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1987]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Theory of Adaptation
- Aptations and Selective Agencies
- Natural Selection and Adaptation
- The Recognition of Aptations
- Effectiveness, Improvement, and Escalation
- Environmental Challenges and Pathways of Adaptation
- The Ranking of Selective Agencies
- Limits to Adaptation
- The Nature of Limitation
- Genetic and Developmental Limitation
- Ecological Limitation
- The Spatial Dimension
- Summary of the Theory of Adaptation
- Hypotheses and Their Evaluation in a Historical Science
- Predictions from the Theory of Adaptation
- The Nature of Historical Inquiry
- Artifacts and Resolution in the Fossil Record
- Functional Morphology and Ecological Inference in Fossils
- The Acquisition of Resources
- Mechanisms and History of Competition
- Types of Competition
- Clones and Colonies
- Competition in Plants
- Metabolic Rate and Competition
- Competition for Mates
- Safe Places, Anachronistic Aptations, and the Recycling of Resources
- The Invasion of Safe Places and Its Consequences
- The Identification of Safe Places
- Deep Water
- Caves and Interstitial Environments
- The Infaunal Environment
- Bioerosion and the Endolithic Environment
- Fresh Water and the Dry Land
- Parasitism and Mutualism
- The Predators of Armored Animals: Functional Morphology and History
- Methods of Subjugation
- The History of Molluscivory
- The Evolution of Armor and Locomotion
- The Functional Morphology and History of Gastropod Armor
- The Functions of Armor
- The Characteristics of Gastropod Shell Armor.