Rates of Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Campbell, K. S. W; Day, M. F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000063691
• Artikelnr.: 56960528

Autorenporträt

K.S.W Campbell, M.F. Day

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for
Evolutionary Rate Studies 2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations
from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The
Geological Evidence 3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca 4.
Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms 5. The Initial Radiation
and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms 6. Selection or Constraint?: A
Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis 7. Development Pathways and
Evolutionary Rates 8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change 9.
Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in
Some Australian Vertebrates 10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to
Function 11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism 12.
Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates 13. The Origin, Nature and
Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes 14. Old and
New Theories of Evolution 15. From Genome to Phenotype 16. The New Gene and
its Evolution Index