Jeffrey S. Levinton

Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution, integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 634
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1174g
• ISBN-13: 9780521005500
• ISBN-10: 0521005507
• Artikelnr.: 22058709

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
1. Macroevolution: the problem and the field
2. Genealogy, systematics, and macroevolution
3. Genetics, speciation, and trans-specific evolution
4. Development and evolution
5. The constructional and functional aspects of form
6. Patterns of morphological change in fossil lineages
7. Patterns of diversity, origination, and extinction
8. A Cambrian explosion?
Glossary
References
Author index
Subject index.