Biological Emergences : Evolution by Natural Experiment.
Title:
Biological Emergences : Evolution by Natural Experiment.
Author:
Reid, Robert G. B.
ISBN:
9780262282260
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (536 pages)
Series:
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Contents:
Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction The Re-invention of Natural Selection -- 1 Paradigm Drift -- 2 Prologue to Emergence -- 3 Evolution by Association -- 4 The Physiological Arena -- 5 Development and Evolution -- 6 Epigenetic Mechanisms -- 7 Orthogenesis -- 8 The Re-invention of Emergence -- 9 From the Particular to the General -- 10 An Emergence Theory -- 11 A Biological Synthesis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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