04786nam 2200685 a 450 991081717110332120200520144314.00-309-17649-21-280-19329-897866101932950-309-55267-20-585-03722-1(CKB)110986584751548(EBL)3377027(SSID)ssj0000257041(PQKBManifestationID)11216953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257041(PQKBWorkID)10228946(PQKB)10848968(MiAaPQ)EBC3377027(Au-PeEL)EBL3377027(CaPaEBR)ebr10062977(OCoLC)923267755(EXLCZ)9911098658475154819940927d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTempo and mode in evolution genetics and paleontology 50 years after Simpson /Walter M. Fitch, Francisco J. Ayala, editors1st ed.Washington, D.C. National Academy Press19951 online resource (336 p.)"National Academy of Sciences."0-309-05191-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Tempo And Mode In Evolution""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Contents""; ""PART I EARLY LIFE""; ""1 Tempo, Mode, the Progenote, and the Universal Root""; ""STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE CELLULAR INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM""; ""THE BASIC KINDS OF LIVING THINGS""; ""THE WOESIAN REVOLUTION""; ""ROOTING THE UNIVERSAL TREE""; ""IMPLICATIONS OF THE ROOTING FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF TEMPO AND MODE IN EARLY CELLULAR EVOLUTION""; ""But Is the Rooting Right?""; ""Where Next?""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""""2 Phylogeny from Function: The Origin of tRNA Is in Replication, not Translation""""METHODS""; ""RESULTS AND DISCUSSION""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""3 Disparate Rates, Differing Fates: Tempo and Mode of Evolutionm Changed from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic""; ""TEMPOS OF EVOLUTION""; ""CYANOBACTERIAL HYPOBRADYTELY""; ""SURVIVAL OF THE ECOLOGICALLY UNSPECIALIZED""; ""A BIPARTITE VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF LIFE""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""4 Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Protists: Evidence for Accelerating Evolutionary Tempo""""THE NATURE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE RECORD""""EARLY EUKARYOTIC FOSSILS: A NARRATIVE RECORD""; ""ESTIMATES OF EVOLUTIONARY TEMPO""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""PART II MACROEVOLUTION""; ""5 Late Precambrian Bilaterians: Grades and Clades""; ""APPEARANCE OF PHYLA IN THE FOSSIL RECORD""; ""THE RISE OF BODY-PLAN COMPLEXITY""; ""PHYLOGENETIC MODELS AND BODY PLANS""; ""TEMPO AND MODE AND BODY PLANS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""6 The Role of Extinction in Evolution""; ""CHARLES DARWIN ON EXTINCTION""; ""GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON ON EXTINCTION""""THE RECORD OF EXTINCTION""""EPISODES OF EXTINCTION""; ""SELECTIVITY""; ""CAUSES OF EXTINCTION""; ""THE ROLE OF EXTINCTION""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""7 Tempo and Mode in the Macroevolutionary Reconstruction of Darwinism""; ""DARWIN'S UNIFORMITARIANISM AND THE DOWNGRADING OF MACROEVOLUTION""; ""TEMPO AND MODE: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION UNDERMINED""; ""A SOLUTION IN BONDED INDEPENDENCE""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""8 Morphological Evolution Through Complex Domains of Fitness""; ""PLANTS AS A VENUE FOR SIMULATED WALKS""; ""SINGLE- VERSUS MULTI-TASK WALKS""""WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS OF SIMULATED WALKS""""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART III HUMAN EVOLUTION""; ""9 Tempo and Mode in Human Evolution""; ""SPECIES, CLADES, AND PHYLOGENY""; ""BIPEDALISM AND THE POSTCRANIUM""; ""MASTICATION""; ""ENCEPHALIZATION""; ""STASIS, PUNCTUATION, AND TRENDS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""10 Molecular Genetics of Speciation and Human Origins""; ""SPECIATION BY FOUNDER EFFECT""; ""THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX""; ""TRANS-SPECIFIC POLYMORPHISMS""; ""EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE DRB1 GENE LOCUS""; ""PERSISTENCE OF POLYMORPHISMS""""EVOLUTIONARY SUBSTITUTIONS AND COALESCENCE THEORY""Evolution (Biology)GeneticsPaleontologyEvolution (Biology)Genetics.Paleontology.575Fitch Walter M.1929-2011.1593140Ayala Francisco Jose1934-355885National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817171103321Tempo and mode in evolution4195792UNINA