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Nitecki, Matthew H.

 
9780226586953: Evolutionary Innovations
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ISBN 10: 0226586952 ISBN 13: 9780226586953
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Sinopsis

Evolutionary innovations—the bony skeleton of vertebrates, avian flight, or the insect pollination system of angiosperms, for example—have in recent years become the focus of much fertile new research in evolutionary biology. Innovations may hold the keys to understanding why whole new groups of organisms evolve or, conversely, why groups of organisms become extinct. This volume brings together contributors from the fields of morphology, genetics, embryology, physiology, and paleontology to present research on evolutionary innovations and to suggest directions for further work.

The topics covered include the plurality of evolutionary innovations, patterns and processes at different hierarchical levels, evolutionary genetics of adaptations, heterochrony and other mechanisms of radical evolutionary change in early development, developmental mechanisms at the origin of morphological novelty, the evolution of morphological variation patterns, functional design and its punctuated products, plausibility and testability in assessing the consequences of evolutionary innovations, paradigms and pitfalls of studying physiological evolution, polyphyletic constructional breakthroughs in fossil and extant species, ecology of evolutionary innovations in the fossil record.

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Matthew H. Nitecki, curator of fossil invertebrates at the Field Museum of Natural History.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226586952
ISBN 13 
9780226586953
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Número de páginas
314
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Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1990
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