Lucio Vinicius

Modular Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a new theory for the emergence of biological complexity and the evolution of human uniqueness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780521429641
• ISBN-10: 0521429641
• Artikelnr.: 30364115

Autorenporträt

Lucio Vinicius is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge, UK. He has published articles in various fields including life history evolution, Drosophila genetics, brain evolution and human growth.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. From natural selection to the history of nature
2. From the units of inheritance to the origin of species
3. Multicellularity and the developmental code
4. Life cycle evolution: life and death of the soma
5. Sex and its consequences: the transition that never happened
6. Animal societies: the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions
7. The new 'Chain of Being': hierarchical evolution and biological complexity
References
Index.