Evolutionary Innovations - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226586952 ISBN 13: 9780226586953

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1990

Riassunto

Evolutionary innovations—the bony skeleton of vertebrates, avian flight, or the insect pollination system of angiosperms, for example—have in recent years become the focus of much fertile new research in evolutionary biology. Innovations may hold the keys to understanding why whole new groups of organisms evolve or, conversely, why groups of organisms become extinct. This volume brings together contributors from the fields of morphology, genetics, embryology, physiology, and paleontology to present research on evolutionary innovations and to suggest directions for further work.

The topics covered include the plurality of evolutionary innovations, patterns and processes at different hierarchical levels, evolutionary genetics of adaptations, heterochrony and other mechanisms of radical evolutionary change in early development, developmental mechanisms at the origin of morphological novelty, the evolution of morphological variation patterns, functional design and its punctuated products, plausibility and testability in assessing the consequences of evolutionary innovations, paradigms and pitfalls of studying physiological evolution, polyphyletic constructional breakthroughs in fossil and extant species, ecology of evolutionary innovations in the fossil record.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Matthew H. Nitecki, curator of fossil invertebrates at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226586952
• ISBN 13: 9780226586953
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 314
• Redattore: Nitecki Matthew H., Nitecki Doris V.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile