Modular evolution how natural selection produces biological complexity
Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, including th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45455284*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From natural selection to the history of nature
- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species
- Multicellularity and the developmental code
- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the soma
- Sex and its consequences : the transition that never happened
- Animal societies : the case of incomplete evolutionary transitions
- The new "chain of being" : hierarchical evolution and biological complexity.
