Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

Name: Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution
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ISBN: 9780521005500

ISBN-10: 0521005507

ISBN-13: 9780521005500

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Jeffrey S. Levinton

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Looking at macroevolution and its underpinnings, with a primary emphasis on animal evolution and from a NeoDarwinian point of view, this text integrates evolutionary processes at all levels to explain the diversity of animal life.

Book details

List price: $104.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 634
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.04" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English



Preface to the first edition


Preface to the second edition



Macroevolution: the problem and the field



Genealogy, systematics, and macroevolution



Genetics, speciation, and trans-specific evolution



Development and evolution



The constructional and functional aspects of form



Patterns of morphological change in fossil lineages



Patterns of diversity, origination, and extinction



A Cambrian explosion?


Glossary


References


Author index


Subject index