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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971687003321

Autore

Reid Robert G. B. <1939->

Titolo

Biological emergences : evolution by natural experiment / / Robert G.B. Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

9786612098291

9780262264426

0262264420

9781282098299

1282098292

9780262282260

0262282267

9781429460958

1429460954

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xv, 517 p

Collana

The Vienna series in theoretical biology

Disciplina

576.8

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology)

Variation (Biology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-504) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction The Re-invention of Natural Selection -- 1 Paradigm Drift -- 2 Prologue to Emergence -- 3 Evolution by Association -- 4 The Physiological Arena -- 5 Development and Evolution -- 6 Epigenetic Mechanisms -- 7 Orthogenesis -- 8 The Re-invention of Emergence -- 9 From the Particular to the General -- 10 An Emergence Theory -- 11 A Biological Synthesis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.