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The Origin of Higher Taxa - Palaeobiological, developmental, and ecological perspectives (Paperback)
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The Origin of Higher Taxa - Palaeobiological, developmental, and ecological perspectives (Paperback)
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How do radically new kinds of organisms evolve? The Origin of
Higher Taxa addresses this essential question, specifically whether
the emergence of higher taxa such as orders, classes, and phyla are
the result of normal Darwinian evolution acting over a sufficiently
long period of time, or whether unusual genetic events and
particular environmental and ecological circumstances are also
involved. Until very recently, the combination of an incomplete
fossil record and a limited understanding about how raw mutations
lead via modified ontogenic processes to significant phenotypic
changes, effectively stymied scientific debate. However, it is now
timely to revisit the question in the light of the discovery of
considerable new fossil material (and new techniques for studying
it), together with significant advances in our understanding of
phenotypic development at the molecular level. This novel text
incorporates evidence from morphology, palaeobiology, developmental
biology, and ecology, to review those parts of the fossil record
that illustrate something of the pattern of acquisition of derived
characters in lineages leading to actual higher taxa as well as the
environmental conditions under which they occurred. The author's
original ideas are set within the context of a broad and balanced
review of the latest research in the field. The result is a book
which provides a concise, authoritative, and accessible overview of
this fascinating subject for both students and researchers in
evolutionary biology and palaeontology.
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