Modular Evolution - How Natural Selection Produces Biological Complexity

Informationen zum Autor Lucio Vinicius is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge, UK. He has published articles in various fields including life history evolution, Drosophila genetics, brain evolution and human growth. Klappentext Presents a new theory for the emergence of biological complexity and the evolution of human uniqueness. Zusammenfassung Natural selection is more than survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex! this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory! and a reinterpretation of humanity's place in evolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. From natural selection to the history of nature; 2. From the units of inheritance to the origin of species; 3. Multicellularity and the developmental code; 4. Life cycle evolution: life and death of the soma; 5. Sex and its consequences: the transition that never happened; 6. Animal societies: the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions; 7. The new 'Chain of Being': hierarchical evolution and biological complexity; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lucio Vinicius, Lucio (University of Cambridge) Vinicius, Vinicius Lucio
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521429641
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42964-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Biology, life sciences