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Biological emergences : evolution by natural experiment / Robert G.B. Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Robert G. B., 1939-
- Series:
- Vienna series in theoretical biology.
- The Vienna series in theoretical biology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology).
- Variation (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 517 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction The Re-invention of Natural Selection
- 1 Paradigm Drift
- 2 Prologue to Emergence
- 3 Evolution by Association
- 4 The Physiological Arena
- 5 Development and Evolution
- 6 Epigenetic Mechanisms
- 7 Orthogenesis
- 8 The Re-invention of Emergence
- 9 From the Particular to the General
- 10 An Emergence Theory
- 11 A Biological Synthesis
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-504) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612098291
- 9780262264426
- 0262264420
- 9781282098299
- 1282098292
- 9780262282260
- 0262282267
- 9781429460958
- 1429460954
- OCLC:
- 86074050
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