Buss The Evolution of Individuality

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5871-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Leo Buss expounds a general theory of development through a simple hierarchical extension of the synthetic theory of evolution. He perceives innovations in development to have evolved in ancestral organisms where the germ line was not closed to genetic variation arising during the course of ontogeny.

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Buss, Leo W.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
PREFACE, pg. vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi
FIGURE SOURCES, pg. xiii
AUGUST WEISMANN’S LEGACY, pg. 1
THE EVOLUTION OF DEVELOPMENT, pg. 27
LIFE CYCLE EVOLUTION, pg. 119
THE EVOLUTION OF HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION, pg. 169
AUTHOR INDEX AND REFERENCE KEY, pg. 199
TAXONOMIC INDEX, pg. 203