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The evolution of adaptive systems [electronic resource] / James P. Brock.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Diego, Calif. : Academic, c2000.Description: xiii, 642 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780080542461 (electronic bk.)
  • 0080542468 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 576.8 22
LOC classification:
  • QH366.2 .B76 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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