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  • Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

    Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution by Levinton, Jeffrey S.;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2, Revised
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 6 August 2001

    • ISBN 9780521803175
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages634 pages
    • Size 264x183x38 mm
    • Weight 1262 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 159 b/w illus. 12 tables
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    Short description:

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

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    Long description:

    An engaging area of biology for more than a century, the study of macroevolution continues to offer profound insight into our understanding of the tempo of evolution and of the evolution of biological diversity. What regulates biological diversity and its historical development? Can it be explained by natural selection alone? Has geologic history regulated the tempo of diversification? This expanded and updated second edition offers a comprehensive look at macroevolution and its underpinnings, with a primary emphasis on animal evolution. From a Neodarwinian point of view, it integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain the diversity of animal life. It examines a wide range of topics including genetics and speciation, development and evolution, the constructional and functional aspects of form, fossil lineages, and systematics, and it takes a hard look at the Cambrian explosion. Researchers and graduate students will find this book a most comprehensive examination of macroevolution.

    ' ... worth reading and having on the desk.' PalAss Newsletter

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Macroevolution: the problem and the field; 2. Genealogy, systematics, and macroevolution; 3. Genetics, speciation, and trans-specific evolution; 4. Development and evolution; 5. The constructional and functional aspects of form; 6. Patterns of morphological change in fossil lineages; 7. Patterns of diversity, origination, and extinction; 8. A Cambrian explosion?; Glossary; References; Author index; Subject index.

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