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" The evolution of adaptive systems / "
James P. Brock.
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959644
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b714014
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Brock, James P.
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The evolution of adaptive systems /\ James P. Brock.
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San Diego, Calif. :: Academic,, ©2000.
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1 online resource (xiii, 642 pages) :: illustrations
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0080542468
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: 1282285025
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: 6612285028
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: 9780080542461
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: 9781282285026
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0121347400
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9780121347406
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Adaptation and the adaptive system -- Spatial structure of the adaptive niche -- Dynamics of the adaptive niche -- The selection interface -- Adaptive equilibrium -- The cladogenetic selection interface -- Adaptive potential, biophysical paradigms, and the selectional attractor -- Evolutionary mode -- Structural paradigms of development -- Adaptive capacity and potential in the mechanisms of development -- Developmental genetics, adaptive capacity, and potential -- Mutation and realization of adaptive potential -- Chromosome structure and adaptive topography -- Evolutionary impediments and the adaptive substrate for evolutionary change -- Darwinian versus Thompsonian factors in evolution -- The morphogenetic topology of evolutionary change -- Architecture of the phyletic lineage -- Evolutionary rate and episodic evolution -- Stasis and the adaptive substrate -- Extinction : lineage to clade -- From lineage to taxon.
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The data of evolutionary biology have changed in a very radical way in recent years, the most significant input to this revolution being the advances made in developmental genetics. Another recent development is a noticeable shift away from extreme specialization in evolutionary biology. In this, we are perhaps to be reminded of George Gaylord Simpson's comments: "evolution is an incredibly complex but at the same time integrated and unitary process." The main objective of this book is to illustrate how natural adaptive systems evolve as a unity--with the particular objective of identifying an.
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Adaptation (Biology)
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Evolution (Biology)
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Adaptation (Biology)
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Evolution (Biology)
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Evolution.
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Adaptatie (fysiologie, biologie)
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Evolutietheorie.
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Genetica.
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Moleculaire evolutie.
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576.8
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QH366.2.B76 2000eb
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