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Autore |
Eldredge Niles |
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Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought / / Niles Eldredge |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1985 |
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©1985 |
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0-19-755997-2 |
1-280-76216-0 |
9786610762163 |
0-19-536513-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1985. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Chapter 1 Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution; Chapter 2 Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis; Chapter 3 Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis; Chapter 4 The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis; Chapter 5 Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 6 The Evolutionary Hierarchies; Chapter 7 Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the modern synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr and George Gaylord Simpson. |
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