Developmental plasticity and evolution / Mary Jane West-Eberhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West-Eberhard, Mary Jane.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adaptation (Biology).

Phenotypic plasticity.

Evolution (Biology).

Developmental biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (815 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

CHAPTER CONTENTS; PART I: FRAMEWORK FOR A SYNTHESIS; PART II: THE ORIGINS OF NOVELTY; PART III: ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPES; PART IV: DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND THE MAJOR THEMES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LITERATURE CITED; AUTHOR INDEX; TAXONOMIC INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-743).

Other Format:

autre version

ISBN:

0-19-988073-5

0-19-756130-6

9786610703890

1-280-70389-X

0-19-802856-3

OCLC:

476260721