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The evolution of complexity by means of natural selection /

John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants has occurred. "How is it," he inquires, "that an egg turns into an elaborate adult? How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of year...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bonner, John Tyler
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988.
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505 0 |a 1. A brief summary of Darwinian evolution, along with an indication of the purpose of this book -- 2. Evidence for the evolution of size increase (and decrease) from the fossil record -- 3. The size of organisms in ecological communities -- 4. A problem in developmental biology: why and how larger plants and animals are built -- 5. The relation between the complexity of communities and the size, diversity, and abundance of the organisms within them -- 6. How size affects the internal complexities of organisms in their evolution and in their development -- 7. Animal behavior: the pinnacle of biological complexity -- 8. The evolution of complexity: a conclusion with three insights. 
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650 7 |a Evolutionsbiologie  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Komplexität  |2 gnd 
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740 0 |a Evolution of complexity. 
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