Adaptation and complex design [[electronic resource] /] / John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AviseJohn C
AyalaFrancisco José <1934-> |
Collana | In the light of evolution |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-11007-8
9786611110079 0-309-66786-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Introduction essay -- pt. 2. Epistemological approaches to biocomplexity assessment -- pt. 3. From individual ontogeny to symbiosis : a hierarchy of complexity -- pt. 4. Case studies : dissecting complex phenotypes -- pt. 5. Concluding essay. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454543703321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007 | ||
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Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms--Toward a New Synthesis--50 Years After Stebbins [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael I. Clegg] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy of Sciences, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (127 p.) |
Disciplina | 581.3/8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AyalaFrancisco José <1934->
FitchWalter M. <1929-2011.> CheggMichael I |
Collana | National Academy of Sciences colloquium series |
Soggetto topico |
Plants - Evolution
Plants - Variation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-18547-3
9786610185474 0-309-58912-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456076303321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy of Sciences, 2000 | ||
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Human evolution [[electronic resource] ] : trails from the past / / Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Francisco J. Ayala |
Autore | Cela Conde Camilo José |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 437 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 569.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AyalaFrancisco José <1934-> |
Collana | Oxford biology |
Soggetto topico |
Fossil hominids
Paleoanthropology Human evolution |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786611160272
1-281-16027-X 0-19-152443-3 1-4356-0973-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface : Homo sapiens, the rational animal -- Evolution, genetics, and systematics -- The evolution of hominoids -- The hominin lineage -- Miocene and Pliocene genera and species -- Pliocene hominins : South Africa and the Rift Valley -- The Pliocene cladogenesis : paranthropus versus homo -- The radiation of homo -- Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade -- The late-Pleistocene transition -- The uniqueness of being human. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451995203321 |
Cela Conde Camilo José | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
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Systematics and the origin of species [[electronic resource] ] : on Ernst Mayr's 100th anniversary / / Jody Hey, Walter M. Fitch, and Francisco Ayasla, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 367 p |
Disciplina | 576.8/6 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MayrErnst <1904-2005.>
HeyJody FitchWalter M. <1929-2011.> AyalaFrancisco José <1934-> |
Soggetto topico |
Species
Biology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-08319-8
9786612083198 0-309-54760-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449986203321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 | ||
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Tempo and mode in evolution [[electronic resource] ] : genetics and paleontology 50 years after Simpson / / Walter M. Fitch, Francisco J. Ayala, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 575 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FitchWalter M. <1929-2011.>
AyalaFrancisco José <1934-> |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Genetics Paleontology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-19329-8
9786610193295 0-309-55267-2 0-585-03722-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456253003321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1995 | ||
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Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms [[electronic resource] ] : toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins / / Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael T. Clegg, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 581.3/8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AyalaFrancisco José <1934->
FitchWalter M. <1929-2011.> CleggMichael T. <1941-> |
Soggetto topico |
Plants - Evolution
Plants - Variation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-309-50188-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Part I EARLY EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF CELLS""; ""1 G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906�2000) � An Appreciation""; ""2 Solution to Darwin�s Dilemma: Discovery of the Missing Precambrian Record of Life""; ""3 The Chimeric Eukaryote: Origin of the Nucleus from the Karyomastigont in Amitochondriate Protists""; ""4 Dynamic Evolution of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Mobile Genes and Introns and Highly Variable Mutation Rates""; ""Part II VIRAL AND BACTERIAL MODELS""; ""5 The Evolution of RNA Viruses: A Population Genetics View""
""6 Effects of Passage History and Sampling Bias on Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Human Influenza A Evolution""""7 Bacteria are Different: Observations, Interpretations, Speculations, and Opinions About the Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution in Prokaryotes""; ""Part III PROTOCTIST MODELS""; ""8 Evolution of RNA Editing in Trypanosome Mitochondria""; ""9 Population Structure and Recent Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum""; ""Part IV POPULATION VARIATION""; ""10 Transposons and Genome Evolution in Plants""; ""11 Maize as a Model for the Evolution of Plant Nuclear Genomes"" ""12 Flower Color Variation: A Model for the Experimental Study of Evolution""""13 Gene Genealogies and Population Variation in Plants""; ""Part V TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN PLANT EVOLUTION""; ""14 Toward a New Synthesis: Major Evolutionary Trends in the Angiosperm Fossil Record""; ""15 Reproductive Systems and Evolution in Vascular Plants""; ""16 Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants?""; ""17 The Role of Genetic and Genomic Attributes in the Success of Polyploids""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456062803321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000 | ||
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