The character concept in evolutionary biology
Almost all evolutionary biologists, indeed all biologists, use particular features to study life. These characteristics or features used by evolutionary biologists are used in a particular way to unravel a tangled evolutionary history, document the rate of evolutionary change, or as evidence of biod...
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San Diego, Calif.
Academic Press
2001, c2001
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Table of Contents:
- challenging the modularity paradigm / Lisa M. Nagy and Terri A. Williams
- Origins of flower morphology / Peter K. Endress
- Origin of butterfly wing patterns / H. Fred Nijhout
- an introduction
- A history of character concepts in evolutionary biology / Kurt M. Fristrup
- An episode in the history of the biological character concept: the work of Oskar and Cécile Vogt / Manfred Dietrich Laubichler
- Preformationist and epigenetic biases in the history of the morphological character concept / Olivier Rieppel
- Character replication / V. Louise Roth
- Characters as the units of evolutionary change / David Houle
- Character identification: the role of the organism / Günter P. Wagner and Manfred D. Laubichler
- Functional units and their evolution / Kurt Schwenk
- The character concept : adaptationalism to molecular developments / Alex Rosenberg
- The mathematical structure of characters and modularity / Junhyong Kim and Minhyong Kim
- Wholes and parts in general systems methodology / Martin Zwick
- What is a part? / Daniel W. McShea and Edward P. Venit
- Perspectives on the evolutionary origin of tetrapod limbs / Javier Capdevila and Juan Carlos Izpisá Belmonte
- Epigenetic mechanisms of character origination / Stuart A. Newman and Gerd B. Müller
- Key innovations and radiations / Frietson Galis
- Includes bibliographical references