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Developmental plasticity and evolution [electronic resource] / Mary Jane West-Eberhard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 794 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198028567
  • 0198028563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Developmental plasticity and evolution.DDC classification:
  • 578.4 22
LOC classification:
  • QH546 .W45 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
CHAPTER CONTENTS; PART I: FRAMEWORK FOR A SYNTHESIS; PART II: THE ORIGINS OF NOVELTY; PART III: ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPES; PART IV: DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND THE MAJOR THEMES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LITERATURE CITED; AUTHOR INDEX; TAXONOMIC INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.
Summary: Part I - Framework for a Synthesis. 1. Gaps and Inconsistencies in Modern Evolutionary Thought. 2. Material for a Synthesis. 3. Plasticity. 4. Modularity. 5. Development. 6. Adaptive Evolution. 7. Principles of Development and Evolution. 8. Darwin's Theory of Development and Evolution. Part II - The Origins of Novelty. 9. The Nature and Analysis of Phenotypic Transitions. 10. Duplication. 11. Deletion. 12. Reversion. 13. Heterochrony. 14. Heterotopy. 15. Cross-sexual Transfer. 16. Quantitative Shifts in Correlated Change. 17. Combinatorial Evolution at the Molecular Level. 18. Phenotypic Recom.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-743) and indexes.

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CHAPTER CONTENTS; PART I: FRAMEWORK FOR A SYNTHESIS; PART II: THE ORIGINS OF NOVELTY; PART III: ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPES; PART IV: DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND THE MAJOR THEMES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LITERATURE CITED; AUTHOR INDEX; TAXONOMIC INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.

Part I - Framework for a Synthesis. 1. Gaps and Inconsistencies in Modern Evolutionary Thought. 2. Material for a Synthesis. 3. Plasticity. 4. Modularity. 5. Development. 6. Adaptive Evolution. 7. Principles of Development and Evolution. 8. Darwin's Theory of Development and Evolution. Part II - The Origins of Novelty. 9. The Nature and Analysis of Phenotypic Transitions. 10. Duplication. 11. Deletion. 12. Reversion. 13. Heterochrony. 14. Heterotopy. 15. Cross-sexual Transfer. 16. Quantitative Shifts in Correlated Change. 17. Combinatorial Evolution at the Molecular Level. 18. Phenotypic Recom.

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