Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought / / Niles Eldredge
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| Autore: |
Eldredge Niles
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| Titolo: |
Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought / / Niles Eldredge
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1985 |
| ©1985 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 575 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evolution (Biology) |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 1985. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unfinished synthesis |
| ISBN: | 0-19-755997-2 |
| 1-280-76216-0 | |
| 9786610762163 | |
| 0-19-536513-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812900703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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