The character concept in evolutionary biology /
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| Language: | English |
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Academic Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Characters, units and natural kinds : 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
- Behavioral characters and historical properties of motor patterns / Peter C. Wainwright and John P. Friel
- Homology and DNA sequence data / Ward Wheeler
- Character polarity and the rooting of cladograms / Harold N. Bryant
- The structure of a character and the evolution of patterns / Paul M. Brakefield
- Characters and environments / Massimo Pigliucci
- The genetic architecture of quantitative traits / Trudy F.C. Mackay
- The genetic architecture of pleiotropic relations and differential epistasis / James M. Cheverud
- Homologies of process and modular elements of embryonic construction / Scott F. Gilbert and Jessica A. Bolker
- Comparative limb development as a tool for understanding the evolutionary diversification of limbs in arthropods : 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
- 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.