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Developmental Plasticity and Evolution




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 04/2003





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The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to
show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive
evolution and to explain major patterns of change. In this book development includes not only embryology and the ontogeny of morphology, sometimes portrayed inadequately as governed by "regulatory genes," but also behavioral development and physiological adaptation, where plasticity is mediated by
genetically complex mechanisms like hormones and learning. The book shows how the universal qualities of phenotypes--modular organization and plasticity--facilitate both integration and change. Here you will learn why it is wrong to describe organisms as genetically programmed; why environmental
induction is likely to be more important in evolution than random mutation; and why it is crucial to consider both selection and developmental mechanism in explanations of adaptive evolution. This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies
to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Using an immense compendium of examples on many kinds of organisms, from viruses and bacteria to higher plants and animals, it shows how thephenotype is reorganized during evolution to produce novelties, and how alternative
phenotypes occupy a pivotal role as a phase of evolution that fosters diversification and speeds change. The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biol




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Developmental Plasticity and Evolution is the first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behaviour, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolution and to explain major patterns of change. In this book development includes not only embryology and the ontogeny of morphology, sometimes portrayed inadequately as governed by "regulatory genes", but also behavioural development and psychological adaptation, where plasticity is mediated by genetically complex mechanisms like hormones and learning. The book shows how the universal qualities of phenotypes - modular organization and plasticity - facilitate both integration and change. Here you will learn why it is wrong to describe organisms as genetically programmed; why environmental induction is likely to be more important in evolution than random mutation; and why it is crucial to consider both selection and developmental mechanism in explanations of adaptive evolution. This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Using an immense compendium of examples on many kinds of organisms, from viruses and bacteria to higher plants and animals, it shows how the phenotype is reorganized during evolution to produce novelties, and how alternative phenotypes occupy a pivotal role as a phase of evolution that fosters diversification and speeds change. The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biology, as shown in chapters on gradualism, homology, environmental induction, speciation, radiation, macroevolution, punctuation, and the maintenance of sex. No other treatment of development and evolution since Darwin's offers such a comprehensive and critical discussion of the relevant issues. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution is designed for biologists interested in the development and evolution of behaviour, life-history patterns, ecology, physiology, morphology and speciation. It will also appeal to evolutionary paleontologists, anthropologists, pscyhologists and teachers of general biology.




Sommario

1 - Gaps and Inconsistencies in Modern Evolutionary Thought
2 - Material for a Synthesis
3 - The Nature of the Phenotype: Plasticity
4 - The Nature of the Phenotype: Modularity
5 - Development
6 - Adaptive Evolution
7 - General Principles of Development and Evolution
8 - Darwin's Theory of Development and Evolution
9 - The Nature and Analysis of Phenotype Transitions
10 - Duplication
11 - Deletion
12 - Reversion
13 - Heterochrony
14 - Heterotopy
15 - Cross-sexual Transfer
16 - Correlated Shifts in Quantitative Traits
17 - Combinational Evolution at the Molecular Level
18 - Phenotypic Recombination by Learning
19 - Recurrent Phenotypes
20 - Alternative Pheontypes as a Phase of Evolution
21 - Divergence without Speciation
22 - Maintenance without Equilibrium
23 - Assessment
24 - Gradualism
25 - Homology
26 - Environmental Modifications
27 - Speciation
28 - Adaptive Radiation
29 - Macroevolution
30 - Punctuation
31 - One Final Word: Sex










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780195122350

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 254 x 36.0 x 178 mm Ø 1482 gr
Formato: Brossura
Illustration Notes:numerous halftones & line drawings
Pagine Arabe: 814


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