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Rates of Evolution

English · Hardback

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Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for Evolutionary Rate Studies 2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The Geological Evidence 3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca 4. Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms 5. The Initial Radiation and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms 6. Selection or Constraint?: A Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis 7. Development Pathways and Evolutionary Rates 8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change 9. Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in Some Australian Vertebrates 10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to Function 11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism 12. Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates 13. The Origin, Nature and Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes 14. Old and New Theories of Evolution 15. From Genome to Phenotype 16. The New Gene and its Evolution Index

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Authors K.s.w Day Campbell, K.s.w. Day Campbell, M.f. Campbell Day
Assisted by K.S.W Campbell (Editor), K.S.W. Campbell (Editor), M.F. Day (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.08.2019
 
EAN 9780367265410
ISBN 978-0-367-26541-0
No. of pages 334
Series Routledge Libary Editions: Evolution
Routledge Library Editions: Evolution
Subject Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works

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