Exploring Evolutionary Biology
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-87893-764-6 (ISBN)
Description
Featuring a collection of articles from "American Scientist" between 1983 and 1995, this book is intended to serve as supplementary reading in evolutionary biology and to introduce the reader to modern research topics in the field. The articles are by leading research scientists and illustrate the diversity of problems that evolutionary biologists encounter along the way to understanding the history of living things and the processes that govern evolutionary change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sunderland
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
215 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 215 mm
Weight
943 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87893-764-6 (9780878937646)
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Content
Part 1 Decoding the fossil record: early life on land, Jane Gray and William Shear; the evolution of early land plants, Patricia G. Gensel and Henry N. Andrewsm; evolution of the early vertebrates, Peter Forey and Philippe Janvier; where did tetrapods come from?, Keith Stewart Thompson; extraordinary fossils, Derek E.G. Briggs; taphonomy and the fossil record, Anna K. Behrensmeyer; what killed the dinosaurs?, William Glen; recent animal extinctions - recipes for disaster, David A. Burney; land mammals and the great American interchange, Larry G. Marshall. Part 2 Interpreting patterns: cladistic analysis and vicariance biogeography, Joel Cracraft; evolution and the triumph of homology, or why history matters, Stephen Jay Gould; the evolution of life without oxygen, Tom Fenchel and Bland J. Finlay; the origin of the life cycle of land plants, Linda E. Graham; the early evolution of the domestic dog, Darcy F. Morey; "Giardia" - a missing link between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, Karen S, Kabnick and Debra A. Peattie; troglobites - the evolution of cave-dwelling organisms, John R. Holsinger; evolutionary relationships of the coelacanth, Thomas Gorr and Traute Kleinschmidt. Part 3 Genetics and evolution: the adaptive importance of genetic variation, Richard K. Koehn and Thomas J. Hibish; the evolutionary potential of crop pests, Fred Gould; Fisher's microscope, or the gradualist's dilemma, Keith Stewart Thompson; directed evolution reconsidered, Donald MacPheem; updating the theory of mutation, John W. Drake, Barry W. Glickman and Lynn S. Ripley; development and evolution in amphibians, James Hanken. Part 4 Sex and behaviour: evolution of sexual differences in insects, Randy Thornhill and Darryl T. Gwynne; female choice in mating, Meredith F. Small; signals, species and sexual selection, Michael Ryan; spider fights as a test of evolutionary game theory, Susan E. Riechert; untangling the evolution of the web, William A. Shear; naked mole rats, Rodney L. Honeycutt; the evolution of primate behaviour, Alison Jolly; the monkey and the fig, Stuart A. Altmann.