Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

Klappentext Expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution! integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity. Zusammenfassung This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution. From a Neodarwinian viewpoint! it integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity. It examines topics including genetics and speciation! development and evolution! the constructional and functional aspects of form! fossil lineages! systematics! and the Cambrian explosion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Macroevolution: the problem and the field; 2. Genealogy, systematics, and macroevolution; 3. Genetics, speciation, and trans-specific evolution; 4. Development and evolution; 5. The constructional and functional aspects of form; 6. Patterns of morphological change in fossil lineages; 7. Patterns of diversity, origination, and extinction; 8. A Cambrian explosion?; Glossary; References; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey S. Levinton, Jeffrey S. (State University of New York Levinton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2001
• EAN: 9780521005500
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00550-0
• No. of pages: 634
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology