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Evolutionary innovations--the bony skeleton of vertebrates, avian flight, or the insect pollination system of angiosperms, for example--have in recent years become the focus of much fertile new research in evolutionary biology. Innovations may hold the keys to understanding why whole new groups of organisms evolve or, conversely, why groups of organisms become extinct. This volume brings together contributors from the fields of morphology, genetics, embryology, physiology, and paleontology to present research on evolutionary innovations and to suggest directions for further work. The topics covered include the plurality of evolutionary innovations, patterns and processes at different hierarchical levels, evolutionary genetics of adaptations, heterochrony and other mechanisms of radical evolutionary change in early development, developmental mechanisms at the origin of morphological novelty, the evolution of morphological variation patterns, functional design and its punctuated products, plausibility and testability in assessing the consequences of evolutionary innovations, paradigms and pitfalls of studying physiological evolution, polyphyletic constructional breakthroughs in fossil and extant species, ecology of evolutionary innovations in the fossil record.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Evolutionary Innovations
• Author: Matthew H. Nitecki
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9780226586946
• ID: 04547971
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 594 g
• Dimensions: 250 × 200 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1990

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