Developmental plasticity and evolution / Mary Jane West-Eberhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West-Eberhard, Mary Jane, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adaptation (Biology).

Phenotypic plasticity.

Evolution (Biology).

Developmental biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 794 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Developmental Plasticity and Evolution is a comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organisation and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behaviour, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolution and to explain major patterns of change.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197561300

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