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Evolutionary Innovations (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Evolutionary Innovations (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Evolutionary innovations--the bony skeleton of vertebrates, avian
flight, or the insect pollination system of angiosperms, for
example--have in recent years become the focus of much fertile new
research in evolutionary biology. Innovations may hold the keys to
understanding why whole new groups of organisms evolve or,
conversely, why groups of organisms become extinct. This volume
brings together contributors from the fields of morphology,
genetics, embryology, physiology, and paleontology to present
research on evolutionary innovations and to suggest directions for
further work.
The topics covered include the plurality of evolutionary
innovations, patterns and processes at different hierarchical
levels, evolutionary genetics of adaptations, heterochrony and
other mechanisms of radical evolutionary change in early
development, developmental mechanisms at the origin of
morphological novelty, the evolution of morphological variation
patterns, functional design and its punctuated products,
plausibility and testability in assessing the consequences of
evolutionary innovations, paradigms and pitfalls of studying
physiological evolution, polyphyletic constructional breakthroughs
in fossil and extant species, ecology of evolutionary innovations
in the fossil record.
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