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Evolutionary Innovations - Hardcover

 
9780226586946: Evolutionary Innovations
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226586944 ISBN 13: 9780226586946
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1990

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

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226586944
ISBN 13 
9780226586946
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
314
Herausgeber
Nitecki Matthew H.
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