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1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: the checkered career of hierarchical thinking in evolutionary biology / Niles Eldredge -- Hierarchy theory of evolution. General principles of biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Temkin and Emanuele Serrelli -- Pattern versus process and hierarchies: revisiting eternal metaphors in macroevolutionary theory / Bruce S. Lieberman -- Lineages and systems: a conceptual discontinuity in biological hierarchies / Gustavo Caponi -- Biological organization from a hierarchical perspective: articulation of concepts and interlevel relation / Jon Umerez -- Hierarchy: the source of teleology in evolution / Daniel W. McShea -- Approaches to the teleological and normative aspects of ecological functions / Gregory J. Cooper, Charbel N. El-Hani, and Nei F. Nunes-Neto -- Hierarchical dynamics: process integration across levels. Information and energy in biological hierarchical systems / Ilya Temkin and Emanuele Serrelli -- Why genomics needs multilevel evolutionary theory / T. Ryan Gregory, Tyler A. Elliott, and Stefan Linquist -- Revisiting the phenotypic hierarchy in hierarchy theory / Silvia Caianiello -- Multilevel selection in a broader hierarchical perspective / Telmo Pievani and Andrea Parravicini -- Systems emergence: the origin of individuals in biological and biocultural evolution / Mihaela Pavlicev, Richard O. Prum, Gary Tomlinson, and Gunter P. Wagner -- Biological hierarchies and macroevolutionary patterns. Ecology and evolution: neither separate nor merged? / Emanuele Serrelli and Ilya Temkin -- Unification of macroevolutionary theory: biologic hierarchies, consonance and the possibility of connecting the dots / William Miller III -- Coming to terms with tempo and mode: speciation, anagenesis, and assessing relative frequencies in macroevolution / Warren D. Allmon -- Niche conservatism, tracking, and ecological stasis: a hierarchical perspective / Carlton E. Brett, Andrew Zaffos, and Arnold I. Miller -- The stability of ecological communities as an agent of evolutionary selection: evidence from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction / Peter D. Roopnarine and Kenneth D. Angielczyk -- Hierarchy theory in the Anthropocene: biocultural homogenization, urban ecosystems, and other emerging dynamics / Michael L. McKinney -- Conclusion: hierarchy theory and the extended synthesis debate / Telmo Pievani. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolution -- Philosophy.
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Hierarchies.
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Biological systems.
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Macroevolution.
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Electronic books.
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Eldredge, Niles, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evolutionary theory : a hierarchical perspective. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] 9780226426051 |
| ISBN |
9780226426051 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780226426228 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780226426051 |
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9780226426198 (e-book) |
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