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Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet |
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Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée : West-Eberhard, Mary Jane. Developmental plasticity and evolution. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2001055164 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Jane West-Eberhard |
ISBN: | 9780198028567 0198028563 |
OCLC Number: | 1012472088 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xx, 794 pages) : illustrations |
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. |
Responsibility: | Mary Jane West-Eberhard. |
Abstract:
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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