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Modular evolution : how natural selection produces biological complexity / Lucio Vinicius.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511776441
  • 9780511774928
  • 0511774923
  • 0511776446
  • 9780511773860
  • 0511773862
  • 9780521429641
  • 0521429641
  • 9780521728775
  • 0521728770
  • 9780511762994
  • 0511762992
  • 9786612657955
  • 6612657952
  • 1107205816
  • 9781107205819
  • 0511775687
  • 9780511775680
  • 0511772793
  • 9780511772795
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Molecular evolution.DDC classification:
  • 576.8 22
LOC classification:
  • QH366.2 .V55 2010eb
NLM classification:
  • 2012 H-148
  • QH 366.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 From natural selection. to the history of nature; 2 From the units of inheritance to the origin of species; 3 Multicellularity and the developmental code; 4 Life cycle evolution: life and death of the soma; 5 Sex and its consequences:the transition that never happened; 6 Animal societies:the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions; 7 The new 'Chain of Being':hierarchical evolution and biological complexity; References; Index.
Summary: "Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, including the role of genes and sex in evolution, the adaptive reasons for senescence and death and the origin of neural information. The author argues that biological complexity increased through the process of 'modularity transfer': modular phenotypes (proteins, somatic cells, learned behaviours) evolved into new modular information carriers (regulatory proteins, neural cells, words), giving rise to new information systems and higher levels of biological organisation. Modular Evolution makes sense of the unique place of humans in evolution, both as the pinnacle of biological complexity and inventors of non-biological evolution"-- Provided by publisher
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"Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, including the role of genes and sex in evolution, the adaptive reasons for senescence and death and the origin of neural information. The author argues that biological complexity increased through the process of 'modularity transfer': modular phenotypes (proteins, somatic cells, learned behaviours) evolved into new modular information carriers (regulatory proteins, neural cells, words), giving rise to new information systems and higher levels of biological organisation. Modular Evolution makes sense of the unique place of humans in evolution, both as the pinnacle of biological complexity and inventors of non-biological evolution"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-232) and index.

Print version record.

Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 From natural selection. to the history of nature; 2 From the units of inheritance to the origin of species; 3 Multicellularity and the developmental code; 4 Life cycle evolution: life and death of the soma; 5 Sex and its consequences:the transition that never happened; 6 Animal societies:the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions; 7 The new 'Chain of Being':hierarchical evolution and biological complexity; References; Index.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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