The long-awaited fourth edition of a classic text, which considers the implications of new advances and challenges in our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants. It has been fully revised for the molecular era, and will continue to be an authoritative resource for students in the field.
The long-awaited fourth edition of a classic text, which considers the implications of new advances and challenges in our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants. It has been fully revised for the molecular era, and will continue to be an authoritative resource for students in the field.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Briggs is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. He has a lifelong interest in evolution, genetics, conservation and taxonomy. He is also the author of Plant Microevolution and Conservation in Human-influenced Ecosystems (Cambridge, 2009), which won the British Ecological Society's 2011 Marsh Book of the Year award.
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Preface Acknowledgements Note on names of plants List of abbreviations 1. Investigating plant variation and evolution 2. From Ray to Darwin 3. Early work on biometry 4. Early work on the basis of individual variation 5. Post-Darwinian ideas about evolution 6. DNA: towards an understanding of heredity and molecular evolution 7. Breeding systems 8. Infraspecific variation and the ecotype concept 9. Pattern and process in plant populations 10. Pattern and process: factors interacting with natural selection 11. Populations: origins and extinctions 12. Species and speciation: concepts and models 13. Allopatric speciation and hybridisation 14. Abrupt speciation by polyploidy 15. The species concept 16. Flowering plant evolution: advances, challenges and prospects 17. Historical biogeography 18. The evolutionary impact of human activities 19. The taxonomic challenge ahead 20. Conservation: from protection to restoration and beyond Index.
Preface Acknowledgements Note on names of plants List of abbreviations 1. Investigating plant variation and evolution 2. From Ray to Darwin 3. Early work on biometry 4. Early work on the basis of individual variation 5. Post-Darwinian ideas about evolution 6. DNA: towards an understanding of heredity and molecular evolution 7. Breeding systems 8. Infraspecific variation and the ecotype concept 9. Pattern and process in plant populations 10. Pattern and process: factors interacting with natural selection 11. Populations: origins and extinctions 12. Species and speciation: concepts and models 13. Allopatric speciation and hybridisation 14. Abrupt speciation by polyploidy 15. The species concept 16. Flowering plant evolution: advances, challenges and prospects 17. Historical biogeography 18. The evolutionary impact of human activities 19. The taxonomic challenge ahead 20. Conservation: from protection to restoration and beyond Index.
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