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Author:   Thomas A.C. Reydon ,  Lia Hemerik
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2005 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9781402029011

ISBN 10:   1402029012
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   18 February 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The History of Acta Biotheoretica and the Nature of Theoretical Biology; Thomas A.C. Reydon, Piet Dullemeijer and Lia Hemerik.- 2. Images of the Genome: From Public Debates to Biology, and Back, and Forth; Cor van der Weele.- 3. The Functional Perspective of Organismal Biology; Arno Wouters.- 4. Infectious Biology: Curse or Blessing? Reflections on Biology in Other Disciplines, with a Case Study of Migraine; Wim J. van der Steen.- 5. The Composite Species Concept: A Rigorous Basis for Cladistic Practice; D.J. Kornet and James W. McAllister.- 6. The Wonderful Crucible of Life's Creation: An Essay on Contingency versus Inevitability of Phylogenetic Development; R. Hengeveld.- 7. The Symbiontic Nature of Metabolic Evolution; S.A.L.M. Kooijman and R. Hengeveld.- 8. The Founder and Allee Effects in the Patch Occupancy Metapopulation Model; Rampal S. Etienne and Lia Hemerik.- 9. Balancing Statistics and Ecology: Lumping Experimental Data for Model Selection; Nelly van der Hoeven, Lia Hemerik and Patrick A. Jansen.- 10. Resilience and Persistence in the Context of Stochastic Population Models; Johan Grasman, Onno A. van Herwaarden and Thomas J. Hagenaars.- 11. Evolution of Specialization and Ecological Character Displacement: Metabolic Plasticity Matters; Martijn Egas.

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