Developmental plasticity and evolution /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Framework for a synthesis
- ch. 1. Gaps and inconsistencies in modern evolutionary thought
- ch. 2. Material for a synthesis
- ch. 3. Plasticity
- ch. 4. Modularity
- ch. 5. Development
- ch. 6. Adaptive evolution
- ch. 7. Principles of development and evolution
- ch. 8. Darwin's theory of development and evolution
- II. The origins of novelty
- ch. 9. The nature and analysis of phenotype transitions
- ch. 10. Duplication
- ch. 11. Deletion
- ch. 12. Reversion
- ch. 13. Heterochrony
- ch. 14. Heterotopy
- ch. 15. Cross-sexual transfer
- ch. 16. Quantitative shifts and correlated change
- ch. 17. Combinatorial evolution at the molecular level
- ch. 18. Phenotype recombination due to learning
- ch. 19. Recurrence
- pt. III. Alternative phenotypes
- ch. 20. Alternative phenotypes as a phase of evolution
- ch. 21. Divergence without speciation
- ch. 22. Maintenance without equilibrium
- ch. 23. Assessment
- pt. IV. Developmental plasticity and the major themes of evolutionary biology
- ch. 24. Gradualism
- ch. 25. Homology
- ch. 26. Environmental modifications
- ch. 27. Speciation
- ch. 28. Adaptive radiation
- ch. 29. Macroevolution
- ch. 30. Punctuation
- ch. 31. One final word : Sex