Developmental plasticity and evolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West-Eberhard, Mary Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
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