Genetics, paleontology, and macroevolution / Jeffrey S. Levinton.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Levinton, Jeffrey S.

Contributor:

• Class of 1878 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Macroevolution.
• Genetics.
• Paleontology.
• Evolution.

Medical Subjects:

• Evolution.
• Genetics.
• Paleontology.

Physical Description:

xv, 617 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution, integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity.

Contents:

• 1 Macroevolution: The Problem and the Field 1
• 2 Genealogy, Systematics, and Macroevolution 32
• 3 Genetics, Speciation, and Transspecific Evolution 81
• 4 Development and Evolution 157
• 5 The Constructional and Functional Aspects of Form 227
• 6 Patterns of Morphological Change in Fossil Lineages 285
• 7 Patterns of Diversity, Origination, and Extinction 367
• 8 A Cambrian Explosion? 443
• 9 Coda: Ten Theses 495.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-586) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1878 Fund.

ISBN:

0521005507

OCLC:

45313940

Online:

• Publisher description
• The Class of 1878 Fund Home Page