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Author: Mary Jane West-Eberhard (Senior Scientist, Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 17.50cm
, Height: 4.00cm
, Length: 25.50cm
Weight: 1.374kg
ISBN: 9780195122350
ISBN 10: 0195122356
Pages: 816
Publication Date: 10 April 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
No other treatment of development and evolution since Darwin's offers such a comprehensive and critical discussion of the relevant issues. Ethology Ecology & Evolution The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biology. Ethology Ecology & Evolution This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Ethology Ecology & Evolution This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive sythesis in the past. Ethology Ecology & Evolution The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution. Ethology Ecology & Evolution
This book does not propose a radical departure from current evolutionary theory; rather it is a truly novel synthesis of evolutionary and developmental biology that is sure to profoundly affect the way biologists view the natural world. A must-read for any serious student of evolution and a must-have for any biological literature collection. --Choice The book is a great achievement and provides the agenda for future research in evolutionary developmental biology, as well as a firm basis for a new and comprehensive post-synthesis synthesis. --Biology and Phylosophy For the past century, evolutionary biology has focused almost exclusively on the ways in which genes and traits are propagated or lost, and has had surprisingly little to say about how new traits originate. In this masterful book, West-Eberhard provides a detailed explanation of how the origins of novelty can be understood in the light of recent insights from development, physiology, and behavior. This is a book of immense scope, full of interesting and exciting biology, in which West-Eberhard shows that the origins of novelty are both diverse and infinitely more interesting than what can be provided by random mutation. It will cause many to see evolution with completely new eyes and may prove to be the most important and insightful book about evolution since The Origin of the Species. -Fred Nijhout, Duke University This is a brilliant new synthesis of evolutionary biology, full of novel and convincing arguments and important lessons for workers in a great diversity of biological fields. I think this book will be a classic that people will be quoting decades from now. --George C. Williams, SUNY Stony Brook This book does not propose a radical departure from current evolutionary theory; rather it is a truly novel synthesis of evolutionary and developmental biology that is sure to profoundly affect the way biologists view the natural world. A must-read for any serious student of evolution and a must-have for any biological literature collection. --Choice
No other treatment of development and evolution since Darwin's offers such a comprehensive and critical discussion of the relevant issues. Ethology Ecology & Evolution The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biology. Ethology Ecology & Evolution This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Ethology Ecology & Evolution This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive sythesis in the past. Ethology Ecology & Evolution The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution. Ethology Ecology & Evolution
