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ISBN: 052184942X 9780521849425 9780511618369 9781107407497 9780511261169 0511261160 0511260598 9780511260599 1107164850 9781107164857 1280749172 9781280749179 9786610749171 6610749175 0511259344 9780511259340 0511618360 0511319967 9780511319969 0511259999 9780511259999 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,
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The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines - permeates both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science. The focus of this 2006 book is to demonstrate to the reader that the adaptive landscape concept can be put into actual analytical practice through the usage of theoretical morphospaces - geometric spaces of both existent and non-existent biological form - and to demonstrate the power of the adaptive landscape concept in understanding the process of evolution. The adaptive landscape concept further allows us to take a spatial approach to the concepts of natural selection, evolutionary constraint and evolutionary development. For that reason, this book relies heavily on spatial graphics to convey the concepts developed within these pages, and less so on formal mathematics.
Evolution (Biology) --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Morphology --- Mathematical models --- Mathematical models. --- Biological form --- Biological structure --- Comparative morphology --- Form in biology --- Structure in biology --- Anatomy, Comparative --- Morphogenesis --- Environment --- Biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological fitness --- Genetics --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental --- Evolution (Biology) - Mathematical models --- Adaptation (Biology) - Mathematical models --- Morphology - Mathematical models --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology
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ISBN: 9780231160568 9780231160575 9780231536363 0231536364 0231160569 0231160577 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,
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The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion almost failed-twice-because of the twin mass extinctions of the Late Devonian Epoch. Some 359 to 375 million years ago, these catastrophic events dealt our ancestors a blow that almost drove them back into the sea. If those extinctions had been just a bit more severe, spiders and insects-instead of vertebrates-might have become the ecologically dominant forms of animal life on land. This book examines the profound evolutionary consequences of the Late Devonian extinctions and the various theories proposed to explain their occurrence. Only one group of four-limbed vertebrates exists on Earth, while other tetrapod-like fishes are extinct. This gap is why the idea of "fish with feet" seems so peculiar to us, yet such animals were once a vital part of our world, and if the Devonian extinctions had not happened, members of these species, like the famous Acanthostega and Ichthyostega, might have continued to live in our rivers and lakes. Synthesizing decades of research and including a wealth of new discoveries, this accessible, comprehensive text explores the causes of the Devonian extinctions, the reasons vertebrates were so severely affected, and the potential evolution of the modern world if the extinctions had never taken place.
Extinction (Biology) --- Paleontology --- Catastrophes (Geology) --- Devonian Period --- Animals --- Extirpation (Biology) --- Biology --- Extinct animals --- Extinction --- Extirpation
ISBN: 0231106165 0231106173 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Columbia university press,
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Morphology --- Morphogenesis --- Mathematics. --- Statistical methods. --- Mathematical models.
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ISBN: 0262354187 0262354179 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press,
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Year: 1982 Publisher: [place of publication not identified] Geological Society of America
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ISBN: 0231075057 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press
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Catastrophes (Geology) --- Extinction (Biology) --- Paleontology
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ISBN: 1283302896 9786613302892 0262298872 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,
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An analysis of convergent evolution, from molecules to ecosystems, demonstrating the limited number of evolutionary pathways available to life.
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Year: 1981 Publisher: Oslo [publisher not identified]
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Year: 1984 Publisher: S l. Macmillan Journals Ltd
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ISBN: 9780231528528 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York, NY
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