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John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants has occurred. "How is it," he inquires, "that an egg turns into an elaborate adult? How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant?" The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development--or more precisely the role of life cycles--in evolutionary change. In a lively writing style that will be familiar to readers of his work The Evolution of Culture in Animals (Princeton, 1980), Bonner addresses a general audience interested in biology, as well as specialists in all areas of evolutionary biology. What is novel in the approach used here is the comparison of complexity inside the organism (especially cell differentiation) with the complexity outside (that is, within an ecological community). Matters of size at both these levels are closely related to complexity. The book shows how an understanding of the grand course of evolution can come from combining our knowledge of genetics, development, ecology, and even behavior.

Biological Evolution. --- Models, Genetic. --- Population Dynamics. --- 575.8 --- Demographic Aging --- Demographic Transition --- Optimum Population --- Population Decrease --- Population Pressure --- Population Replacement --- Population Theory --- Residential Mobility --- Rural-Urban Migration --- Stable Population --- Stationary Population --- Malthusianism --- Neomalthusianism --- Aging, Demographic --- Decrease, Population --- Decreases, Population --- Demographic Transitions --- Dynamics, Population --- Migration, Rural-Urban --- Migrations, Rural-Urban --- Mobilities, Residential --- Mobility, Residential --- Optimum Populations --- Population Decreases --- Population Pressures --- Population Replacements --- Population Theories --- Population, Optimum --- Population, Stable --- Population, Stationary --- Populations, Optimum --- Populations, Stable --- Populations, Stationary --- Pressure, Population --- Pressures, Population --- Replacement, Population --- Replacements, Population --- Residential Mobilities --- Rural Urban Migration --- Rural-Urban Migrations --- Stable Populations --- Stationary Populations --- Theories, Population --- Theory, Population --- Transition, Demographic --- Transitions, Demographic --- Genetics, Population --- Genetic Models --- Genetic Model --- Model, Genetic --- Evolution, Biological --- Sociobiology --- Evolution. Origin of species. Phylogeny --- Evolution (Biology) --- Natural selection. --- Evolution --- Models --- Population dynamics --- genetic --- Life History Traits --- Evolution (Biology). --- Evolution. --- Population dynamics. --- genetic. --- 575.8 Evolution. Origin of species. Phylogeny --- Natural selection --- Biological Evolution --- Models, Genetic --- Population Dynamics --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Heredity --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Phylogeny --- Genetic. --- razvojna biologija --- evolucija --- anatomija --- gostota naseljenosti --- razporeditev naseljenosti --- etologija. --- darwinizem --- fosili --- kompleksnost --- velikost telesa --- združbe --- populacije. --- Darwinian evolution. --- Dictyostelium. --- Hutchinson ratio. --- Kirschner, M. --- Lamarckism. --- aclonal organisms. --- acrasids. --- allostery. --- apical meristem. --- behavior. --- cambium. --- cell competition. --- conquest of land. --- convergent evolution. --- developmental constraints. --- dictyostelids. --- dominance hierarchy. --- earthworms. --- ecology. --- elastic similarity. --- endoskeleton. --- energid. --- food chains. --- gene net. --- genetic drift. --- habituation, in Stentor. --- heterochrony. --- heterocysts. --- inductors, in development. --- integrating mechanisms. --- isolating mechanisms. --- jellyfish. --- kelp. --- lichens. --- liverworts. --- macronucleus. --- mammals. --- metamorphosis. --- mosaic development. --- natural selection. --- nematocytes. --- neurotransmitter. --- notochord. --- pattern formation. --- pioneering. --- population biology. --- punctuated equilibria. --- regulative development. --- scavengers. --- siphonophores. --- species formation.