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The evolution of adaptive systems /

The data of evolutionary biology have changed in a very radical way in recent years, the most significant input to this revolution being the advances made in developmental genetics. Another recent development is a noticeable shift away from extreme specialization in evolutionary biology. In this, we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brock, James P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego, Calif. : Academic, �2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Adaptation and the adaptive system
  • Spatial structure of the adaptive niche
  • Dynamics of the adaptive niche
  • The selection interface
  • Adaptive equilibrium
  • The cladogenetic selection interface
  • Adaptive potential, biophysical paradigms, and the selectional attractor
  • Evolutionary mode
  • Structural paradigms of development
  • Adaptive capacity and potential in the mechanisms of development
  • Developmental genetics, adaptive capacity, and potential
  • Mutation and realization of adaptive potential
  • Chromosome structure and adaptive topography
  • Evolutionary impediments and the adaptive substrate for evolutionary change
  • Darwinian versus Thompsonian factors in evolution
  • The morphogenetic topology of evolutionary change
  • Architecture of the phyletic lineage
  • Evolutionary rate and episodic evolution
  • Stasis and the adaptive substrate
  • Extinction : lineage to clade
  • From lineage to taxon.