Tempo And Mode In Evolution

Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309552677

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by for the National Academy of Sciences Pdf

Since George Gaylord Simpson published Tempo and Mode in Evolution in 1944, discoveries in paleontology and genetics have abounded. This volume brings together the findings and insights of today's leading experts in the study of evolution, including Ayala, W. Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould. The volume examines early cellular evolution, explores changes in the tempo of evolution between the Precambrian and Phanerozoic periods, and reconstructs the Cambrian evolutionary burst. Long-neglected despite Darwin's interest in it, species extinction is discussed in detail. Although the absence of data kept Simpson from exploring human evolution in his book, the current volume covers morphological and genetic changes in human populations, contradicting the popular claim that all modern humans descend from a single woman. This book discusses the role of molecular clocks, the results of evolution in 12 populations of Escherichia coli propagated for 10,000 generations, a physical map of Drosophila chromosomes, and evidence for "hitchhiking" by mutations.

Author : George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0231058470

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson Pdf

Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309051910

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by for the National Academy of Sciences Pdf

Since George Gaylord Simpson published Tempo and Mode in Evolution in 1944, discoveries in paleontology and genetics have abounded. This volume brings together the findings and insights of today's leading experts in the study of evolution, including Ayala, W. Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould. The volume examines early cellular evolution, explores changes in the tempo of evolution between the Precambrian and Phanerozoic periods, and reconstructs the Cambrian evolutionary burst. Long-neglected despite Darwin's interest in it, species extinction is discussed in detail. Although the absence of data kept Simpson from exploring human evolution in his book, the current volume covers morphological and genetic changes in human populations, contradicting the popular claim that all modern humans descend from a single woman. This book discusses the role of molecular clocks, the results of evolution in 12 populations of Escherichia coli propagated for 10,000 generations, a physical map of Drosophila chromosomes, and evidence for "hitchhiking" by mutations.

Author : George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951000029258H

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson Pdf

Author : George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473704317

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson Pdf

Author : Léo F. Laporte
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Paleontologists
ISBN : 9780231120654

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George Gaylord Simpson by Léo F. Laporte Pdf

Focusing on Simpson's scientific contributions, Laporte provides chapters on Simpson's earliest paleontological research through his distinguished Alexander Agassiz professorship at Harvard and his extensive fieldwork for the American Museum of Natural History, where he developed the core themes set forth in his most prestigious work, "Tempo and Mode in Evolution"

Author : Stephen Jay GOULD,Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674037847

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Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay GOULD,Stephen Jay Gould Pdf

In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the controversial idea that the majority of species originates in geological moments (punctuations) and persists in stasis. Now, thirty-five years later, Punctuated Equilibrium offers his only book-length testament on a theory he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended.

Author : Robert Lynn Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 052147809X

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Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution by Robert Lynn Carroll Pdf

The factors that influenced the evolution of the vertebrates are compared with the importance of variation and selection that Darwin emphasised in this broad study of the patterns and forces of evolutionary change.

Author : George Gaylord Simpson,Anne Roe,Richard C. Lewontin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486161112

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Quantitative Zoology by George Gaylord Simpson,Anne Roe,Richard C. Lewontin Pdf

This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.

Author : George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:486809754

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson Pdf

Author : Francisco Jos_ Ayala,Walter M. Fitch
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9780309058773

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Genetics and the Origin of Species by Francisco Jos_ Ayala,Walter M. Fitch Pdf

Author : Philip D. Gingerich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781107167247

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Rates of Evolution by Philip D. Gingerich Pdf

An overview of evolutionary rates, analyzing data from laboratory, field and fossil record studies to extract their underlying generation-to-generation rates.

Author : Niles Eldredge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195365139

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Unfinished Synthesis by Niles Eldredge Pdf

This study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson. The author argues that although only genes and organisms are taken as historic "individuals" in conventional theory, species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals--an approach that yields the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution. This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematists, paleontologists, and ecologists, as well as a wide range of educated lay readers.

Author : Niles Eldredge,Telmo Pievani,Emanuele Serrelli,Ilya Temkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226426198

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Evolutionary Theory by Niles Eldredge,Telmo Pievani,Emanuele Serrelli,Ilya Temkin Pdf

The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and integrated into yet more encompassing ecosystems. In the face of such awe-inspiring complexity, there is a need for a comprehensive, non-reductionist evolutionary theory. Having emerged at the crossroads of paleobiology, genetics, and developmental biology, the hierarchical approach to evolution provides a unifying perspective on the natural world and offers an operational framework for scientists seeking to understand the way complex biological systems work and evolve. Coedited by one of the founders of hierarchy theory and featuring a diverse and renowned group of contributors, this volume provides an integrated, comprehensive, cutting-edge introduction to the hierarchy theory of evolution. From sweeping historical reviews to philosophical pieces, theoretical essays, and strictly empirical chapters, it reveals hierarchy theory as a vibrant field of scientific enterprise that holds promise for unification across the life sciences and offers new venues of empirical and theoretical research. Stretching from molecules to the biosphere, hierarchy theory aims to provide an all-encompassing understanding of evolution and—with this first collection devoted entirely to the concept—will help make transparent the fundamental patterns that propel living systems.

Author : Ernst Mayr
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674639065

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One Long Argument by Ernst Mayr Pdf

The great evolutionist Mayr elucidates the subtleties of Darwin’s thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual heirs—A. R. Wallace, T. H. Huxley, August Weisman, Asa Gray. Mayr has achieved a remarkable distillation of Darwin’s scientific thought and his legacy to twentieth-century biology.