The evolution of individuality /
Author / Creator: | Buss, Leo W. |
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Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1987. |
Description: | xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/886568 |
Summary: | Leo Buss expounds a general theory of development through a simple hierarchical extension of the synthetic theory of evolution. He perceives innovations in development to have evolved in ancestral organisms where the germ line was not closed to genetic variation arising during the course of ontogeny. |
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Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
Physical Description: | xv, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [xiii-xv] |
ISBN: | 0691084688 0691084696 |