Biological emergences : evolution by natural experiment / / Robert G.B. Reid
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| Autore: |
Reid Robert G. B. <1939->
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| Titolo: |
Biological emergences : evolution by natural experiment / / Robert G.B. Reid
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xv, 517 p |
| Disciplina: | 576.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evolution (Biology) |
| Variation (Biology) | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Biological emergences |
| ISBN: | 0-262-26442-0 |
| 1-282-09829-2 | |
| 0-262-28226-7 | |
| 9786612098291 | |
| 1-4294-6095-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806812803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Vienna series in theoretical biology.