1st Edition

Rates of Evolution

334 Pages

by Routledge

334 Pages

by Routledge

334 Pages

by Routledge

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Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and developmental biologists to examine some aspects of the problem of evolutionary rates. The book asks questions surrounding the study of evolution, such as did large morphological changes really occur rapidly at various... Read more

Preface

1 Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for Evolutionary Rate Studies, D.M. Raup

2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The Geological Evidence, M.R. Walter

3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca, B. Runnegar

4. Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms, K.S.W. Campbell and C.R. Marshall

5. The Initial Radiation and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms, E.M. Truswell

6. Selection or Constraint?: A Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis, P.G. Williamson

7. Development Pathways and Evolutionary Rates, D.T. Anderson

8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change, I.R. Franklin

9. Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in Some Australian Vertebrates, P.R. Baverstock and M. Adams

10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to Function, J.A. Thomson

11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism, H.L. Carson

12. Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates, A.R. Templeton

13. The Origin, Nature and Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, D.C. Reanney

14. Old and New Theories of Evolution, J. Langridge