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Evolution - Components and Mechanisms

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Evolution: Components and Mechanisms introduces the many recent discoveries and insights that have added to the discipline of organic evolution, and combines them with the key topics needed to gain a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of evolution. Each chapter covers an important topic or factor pertinent to a modern understanding of evolutionary theory, allowing easy access to particular topics for either study or review. Many chapters are cross-referenced.
Modern evolutionary theory has expanded significantly within only the past two to three decades. In recent times the definition of a gene has evolved, the definition of organic evolution itself is in need of some modification, the number of known mechanisms of evolutionary change has increased dramatically, and the emphasis placed on opportunity and contingency has increased. This book synthesizes these changes and presents many of the novel topics in evolutionary theory in an accessible and thorough format.
This book is an ideal, up-to-date resource for biologists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and researchers in, as well as students and academics in these areas and professional scientists in many subfields of biology.

List of contents

Contents


  1. Evolution

  2. Natural Selection

  3. Adaptation

  4. Competition

  5. Genetics Basics & Mutations

  6. Transposable Elements, Viruses, and Genomes

  7. Horizontal Gene Transfer

  8. Neutral Evolution

  9. Genetic Drift

  10. Environment

  11. Development

  12. Symbiosis

  13. Speciation

  14. Micro- and Macroevolution

  15. Homology

  16. Imperfection

  17. The Fossil Record and the History of Life

  18. Contingency and Evolution

  19. Opportunity

  20. Phylogeny-The Tree of Life

  21. Progress-Purpose?

Report

"...a competent, informed overview of recent developments in the study of the mechanisms of evolutionary change."--The Quarterly Review of Biology, Evolution
"Intentionally left blank--not providing quote"--Choice Reviews Online, January 2015

Product details

Authors David Zeigler, Zeigler David
Publisher Academic Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.04.2014
 
EAN 9780128003480
ISBN 978-0-12-800348-0
Dimensions 152 mm x 10 mm x 229 mm
Weight 363 g
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries

Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Evolution / Evolutionary biology

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