Developmental plasticity and evolution /

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Author / Creator:West-Eberhard, Mary Jane.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 794 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11381970
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ISBN:9780198028567
0198028563
9786610703890
6610703892
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9781280703898
0195122356
0195122348
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-743) and indexes.
English.
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Summary:Part I - Framework for a Synthesis. 1. Gaps and Inconsistencies in Modern Evolutionary Thought. 2. Material for a Synthesis. 3. Plasticity. 4. Modularity. 5. Development. 6. Adaptive Evolution. 7. Principles of Development and Evolution. 8. Darwin's Theory of Development and Evolution. Part II - The Origins of Novelty. 9. The Nature and Analysis of Phenotypic Transitions. 10. Duplication. 11. Deletion. 12. Reversion. 13. Heterochrony. 14. Heterotopy. 15. Cross-sexual Transfer. 16. Quantitative Shifts in Correlated Change. 17. Combinatorial Evolution at the Molecular Level. 18. Phenotypic Recom.
Other form:Print version: West-Eberhard, Mary Jane. Developmental plasticity and evolution. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003