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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48398911 Title: Developmental plasticity and evolution Author: Mary Jane West-Eberhard Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0195122348 9780195122343 0195122356 9780195122350 OCLC:48398911

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Developmental plasticity and evolution

Author:	Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Summary:	West-Eberhard is widely recognized as one of the most incisive thinkers in evolutionary biology. This book assesses all the evidence for our current understanding of the role of changes in body plan Read more...
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Subjects	Adaptation (Biology) Phenotype. Evolution (Biology) View all subjects
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Mary Jane West-Eberhard Find more information about:
ISBN:	0195122348 9780195122343 0195122356 9780195122350
OCLC Number:	48398911
Description:	xx, 794 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:	Gaps and inconsistencies in Modern Evolutionary Thought -- Material for a synthesis -- Plasticity -- Modularity -- Development -- Adaptive evolution -- Principles of development and evolution -- Darwin's Theory of Development and Evolution -- The nature and analysis of phenotype transitions -- Duplication -- Deletion -- Reversion -- Heterochrony -- Heterotopy -- Cross-sexual transfer -- Quantitative shifts and correlated change -- Combinatorial evolution at the molecular level -- Phenotypic recombination due to learning -- Recurrence -- Alternative phenotypes as a phase of evolution -- Divergence without speciation -- Maintenance without equilibrium -- Assessment -- Gradualism -- Homology -- Environmental modifications -- Speciation -- Adaptive radiation -- Macroevolution -- Punctuation -- One final word : sex.
Responsibility:	Mary Jane West-Eberhard.
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The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution. * Ethology Ecology & Evolution * This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive sythesis in the past. * Ethology Ecology Read more...

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