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The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295703
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Major Transitions in Evolution RevisitedDDC classification:
  • 576.8
LOC classification:
  • QH366.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I A Big Picture of Big Pictures of Life's History -- 1 The Miscellaneous Transitions in Evolution -- 2 Alternative Patterns of Explanation for Major Transitions -- 3 Biological Ontology and Hierarchical Organization -- 4 Darwinian Populations and Transitions in Individuality -- 5 Evolvability Reconsidered -- II The Prokaryote's Tale -- 6 To Be or Not To Be -- 7 The Evolution of Restraint in Structured Populations -- 8 Conflicts among Levels of Selection as Fuel for the Evolution of Individuality -- III Complexity and the Developmental Cycle -- 9 Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality -- 10 How Many Levels Are There? -- 11 Plant Individuality and Multilevel Selection Theory -- 12 Phylogenetic, Functional, and Geological Perspectives on Complex Multicellularity -- 13 The Small Picture Approach to the Big Picture -- IV Concluding Remarks -- 14 Concluding Remarks -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.
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Cover -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I A Big Picture of Big Pictures of Life's History -- 1 The Miscellaneous Transitions in Evolution -- 2 Alternative Patterns of Explanation for Major Transitions -- 3 Biological Ontology and Hierarchical Organization -- 4 Darwinian Populations and Transitions in Individuality -- 5 Evolvability Reconsidered -- II The Prokaryote's Tale -- 6 To Be or Not To Be -- 7 The Evolution of Restraint in Structured Populations -- 8 Conflicts among Levels of Selection as Fuel for the Evolution of Individuality -- III Complexity and the Developmental Cycle -- 9 Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality -- 10 How Many Levels Are There? -- 11 Plant Individuality and Multilevel Selection Theory -- 12 Phylogenetic, Functional, and Geological Perspectives on Complex Multicellularity -- 13 The Small Picture Approach to the Big Picture -- IV Concluding Remarks -- 14 Concluding Remarks -- Contributors -- Index.

Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.

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