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|a Bruton, Michael N.
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|a Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals
|h Elektronische Ressource
|c edited by Michael N. Bruton
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|a 1st ed. 1989
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|a Dordrecht
|b Springer Netherlands
|c 1989, 1989
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|a XVIII, 617 p
|b online resource
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|a 24. The ecological significance of alternative life-history styles -- Transcript of discussions -- What is the difference between neo-Darwinism and epigenetics? -- The Okavango debate on bifurcation -- List of contributors -- Scientific and subject index
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|a 13. Alternative life-history styles of mutillid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera) -- 14. Alternative life-history styles in Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera) -- 15. The evolution of alternative life styles in Coleoptera -- 16. Alternative life-history styles in salmonine fishes with emphasis on arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus -- 17. Metamorphosis in the frog Arthroleptella lightfooti (Anura, Ranidae) with emphasis on neuro-endocrine mechanisms -- 18. Allometry and the breeding biology of some plovers -- 19. Alternative life-history styles of South African birds -- 20. Life-history styles of southern African Mastomys natalensis, Otomys irroratus and Rhabdomys pumilio (Mammalia, Rodentia) -- 21. The megaherbivore syndrome: alternative life style or different time frame? -- 22. The constraint of maternal nutrition on the trajectory of fetalgrowth in humans -- III. Are new paradigms emerging? -- 23. The epigenetic mechanisms of bifurcation and alternative life-history styles --
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|a Prologue -- 1. The Tao of life: from the dynamic unity of polar opposites to self-organization -- I. Theories, mechanisms and examples -- 2. Developmental biology and alternative life styles -- 3. On divergent and progressive evolution -- 4. Direct and indirect development in fishes — examples of alternative life-history styles -- 5. Alternative life-history styles in anuran amphibians: evolutionary and ecological implications -- 6. Alternative life-history styles in reptiles -- 7. Environmentally guided phenotype plasticity in mammals and some of its consequences to theoretical and applied biology -- 8. Sex change as an alternative life-history style -- 9. Environmental restraints and life strategies: a habitat templet matrix -- 10. Alternative life-history styles of small mammals -- II. Theories contested or tested -- 11. Ontogeny and evolution: saltatory or otherwise? -- 12. Alternative sexual tactics in male bladder grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Pneumoridae) --
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|a Anatomy, Comparative
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|a Springer Book Archives -2004
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|a Perspectives in Vertebrate Science
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|a 10.1007/978-94-009-2605-9
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|u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2605-9?nosfx=y
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