Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution.

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 a...

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Main Author: Levinton, Jeffrey S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780511047930
0511047932
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; CHAPTER 1 Macroevolution: The Problem and the Field; CHAPTER 2 Genealogy, Systematics, and Macroevolution; CHAPTER 3 Genetics, Speciation, and Transspecific Evolution; CHAPTER 4 Development and Evolution; CHAPTER 5 The Constructional and Functional Aspects of Form; CHAPTER 6 Patterns of Morphological Change in Fossil Lineages; CHAPTER 7 Patterns of Diversity, Origination, and Extinction; CHAPTER 8 A Cambrian Explosion?; CHAPTER 9 Coda: Ten Theses; Glossary of Macroevolution.
  • ReferencesAUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.