Rates of Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780367265588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 330 str.

K. S. W. Campbell; M. F. Day

Opis

Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for Evolutionary Rate Studies  2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The Geological Evidence  3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca  4. Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms  5. The Initial Radiation and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms  6. Selection or Constraint?: A Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis  7. Development Pathways and Evolutionary Rates  8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change  9. Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in Some Australian Vertebrates  10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to Function  11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism  12. Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates  13. The Origin, Nature and Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes  14. Old and New Theories of Evolution  15. From Genome to Phenotype  16. The New Gene and its Evolution  Index

O autorze

K.S.W Campbell, M.F. Day