Evolution: components and mechanisms
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…
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- Full title :Evolution : components and mechanisms / David Zeigler.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Academic Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (210 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780128004173, 0128004177, 1306642418, 9781306642415, 0128003480, 9780128003480
- oclc:ocn880452212
- LC Classification:QH366.2
- Dewey Decimal:576.8
Table of Contents
Evolution -- Natural Selection -- Adaptation -- Competition -- Genetics Basics & Mutations -- Transposable Elements, Viruses, and Genomes -- Horizontal Gene Transfer -- Neutral Evolution -- Genetic Drift -- Environment -- Development -- Symbiosis -- Speciation -- Micro- and Macroevolution -- Homology -- Imperfection -- The Fossil Record and the History of Life -- Contingency and Evolution -- Opportunity -- Phylogeny:The Tree of Life -- Progress-Purpose?
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