Developmental Plasticity and EvolutionOxford University Press, 13 мар. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 916 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 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 behavior, life-history patterns, ecology, physiology, morphology and speciation. It will also appeal to evolutionary paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and teachers of general biology. |
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... Modular Traits 67 Modular Traits as Subunits of Gene Expression 70 Limitations of the Modularity Concept 81 Complementarity 83 Landmarks in the Evolution of Modularity 84 61 Hypermodularity and Somatic Sequestration 86 General ...
... Modular Traits 67 Modular Traits as Subunits of Gene Expression 70 Limitations of the Modularity Concept 81 Complementarity 83 Landmarks in the Evolution of Modularity 84 61 Hypermodularity and Somatic Sequestration 86 General ...
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... modular nature of phenotype orga- nization and its relation to the dissociability and reorganization of traits . This view has not fully per- meated evolutionary biology . Some cladists invoke the assumption of terminal addition to ...
... modular nature of phenotype orga- nization and its relation to the dissociability and reorganization of traits . This view has not fully per- meated evolutionary biology . Some cladists invoke the assumption of terminal addition to ...
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... modular qualities and connect- edness with others - modularity and connectedness or continuity are complementary , but differently manifested and analyzed , properties of all traits . Both discreteness and connectedness are products of ...
... modular qualities and connect- edness with others - modularity and connectedness or continuity are complementary , but differently manifested and analyzed , properties of all traits . Both discreteness and connectedness are products of ...
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... ( modular- ity ) and continuous variation ( in dimensions ) of traits . The thresholds of switches are continuously variable and polygenic . So the discrete , switch- controlled variants of development can be directly related to the ...
... ( modular- ity ) and continuous variation ( in dimensions ) of traits . The thresholds of switches are continuously variable and polygenic . So the discrete , switch- controlled variants of development can be directly related to the ...
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... modular subunits . Because traits are regulated by switches ( chapter 4 ) , they can be turned off and on and recombined with other sub- units during evolution . Part II shows the multitude of kinds of modular reorganziation that have ...
... modular subunits . Because traits are regulated by switches ( chapter 4 ) , they can be turned off and on and recombined with other sub- units during evolution . Part II shows the multitude of kinds of modular reorganziation that have ...
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THE ORIGINS OF NOVELTY | 195 |
ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPES | 375 |
DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND THE MAJOR THEMES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | 469 |
LITERATURE CITED | 639 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 745 |
TAXONOMIC INDEX | 759 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 767 |
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