Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Perspectives in Vertebrate Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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)