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Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
Series: Perspectives in Vertebrate Science, 6
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These proceedings had their origin in a conference entitled
'Alternative Life History Styles of Fishes and Other Organisms'
which was held in Grahamstown, South Africa, in June 1987. The idea
for the conference arose out of the fascination of an African
ichthyologist/ecologist (MNB) for the conceptual models of fish
life-history styles which were being developed by an
ichthyologist/epigeneticist based in Canada but with field
experience in Europe, Asia and Africa (EKB). I had never been fully
convinced that the adaptationist arguments of the neo-Darwinians ex
plained all ontogenetic and evolutionary phenomena, and found that
the novel approach to organism development and evolution which had
been adopted by Balon, as well as by others such as L0vtrup, was
refreshing and enlightening. Their perspectives, combined with the
new ideas on self-organisation and the link between nonequilibrium
thermodynamics and biology by Prigogine, Jantsch, Laszlo, Wicken,
Weber and others, seemed to suggest that new ways of interpreting
old findings were now becoming available. On delving into the
literature I found that a variety of zoologists were working in the
field of alternative life-history styles and autopoiesis, yet they
seemed to be unaware of one another's work. We decided that it was
time for a meeting of minds. The aim of the conference was to
examine the way in which epigenesis (i. e."
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