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Time Frames : The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria /
Scientists have recently begun to question one of the pillars of modern thought--Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly evolution occurs; but if it is a slow, continuous process by which one species gradually modifies itself into a new one, as Darwin believed, why are there so many mis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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| Colección: | Princeton science library.
Princeton legacy library. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Evolution nowadays
- Ancient seas and evolutionary fantasies
- At sea in the American Midwest
- The emergence of punctuated equilibria : speciation and evolutionary change in ancient seas
- Paradox found: adaptation and macroevolution
- Paradox lost: species at play in the evolutionary game
- Where to? What next?
- Appendix. Punctuated equilibria : an alternative to phyletic gradualism.