Modular evolution : how natural selection produces biological complexity /

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Author / Creator:	Vinicius, Lucio, 1970-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 235 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Evolution (Biology) Natural selection. Biocomplexity. Molecular evolution. Biological Evolution. Biodiversity. Molecular Biology. Selection, Genetic. Biocomplexity. Evolution (Biology) Molecular evolution. Natural selection.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11825726

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ISBN:	9780511776441 9780511774928 0511774923 0511776446 9780511773860 0511773862 9780521429641 0521429641 9780521728775 0521728770 9780511762994 0511762992 9786612657955 6612657952 1107205816 9781107205819 0511775687 9780511775680 0511772793 9780511772795
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-232) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, including the role of genes and sex in evolution, the adaptive reasons for senescence and death and the origin of neural information. The author argues that biological complexity increased through the process of 'modularity transfer': modular phenotypes (proteins, somatic cells, learned behaviours) evolved into new modular information carriers (regulatory proteins, neural cells, words), giving rise to new information systems and higher levels of biological organisation. Modular Evolution makes sense of the unique place of humans in evolution, both as the pinnacle of biological complexity and inventors of non-biological evolution"--
Other form:	Print version: Vinicius, Lucio, 1970- Molecular evolution. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521429641
Standard no.:	9786612657955

Table of Contents:

Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 From natural selection. to the history of nature; 2 From the units of inheritance to the origin of species; 3 Multicellularity and the developmental code; 4 Life cycle evolution: life and death of the soma; 5 Sex and its consequences:the transition that never happened; 6 Animal societies:the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions; 7 The new 'Chain of Being':hierarchical evolution and biological complexity; References; Index.

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