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The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection
Taschenbuch von John Tyler Bonner
Sprache: Englisch

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John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants has occurred. "How is it," he inquires, "that an egg turns into an elaborate adult? How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant?" The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development--or more precisely the role of life cycles--in evolutionary change. In a lively writing style that will be familiar to readers of his work The Evolution of Culture in Animals (Princeton, 1980), Bonner addresses a general audience interested in biology, as well as specialists in all areas of evolutionary biology.

What is novel in the approach used here is the comparison of complexity inside the organism (especially cell differentiation) with the complexity outside (that is, within an ecological community). Matters of size at both these levels are closely related to complexity. The book shows how an understanding of the grand course of evolution can come from combining our knowledge of genetics, development, ecology, and even behavior.
John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants has occurred. "How is it," he inquires, "that an egg turns into an elaborate adult? How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant?" The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development--or more precisely the role of life cycles--in evolutionary change. In a lively writing style that will be familiar to readers of his work The Evolution of Culture in Animals (Princeton, 1980), Bonner addresses a general audience interested in biology, as well as specialists in all areas of evolutionary biology.

What is novel in the approach used here is the comparison of complexity inside the organism (especially cell differentiation) with the complexity outside (that is, within an ecological community). Matters of size at both these levels are closely related to complexity. The book shows how an understanding of the grand course of evolution can come from combining our knowledge of genetics, development, ecology, and even behavior.
Über den Autor
John Tyler Bonner
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
Fachbereich: Grundlagen
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 276
ISBN-13: 9780691084947
ISBN-10: 0691084947
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bonner, John Tyler
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: John Tyler Bonner
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.1988
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
preigu-id: 107488561
Über den Autor
John Tyler Bonner
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
Fachbereich: Grundlagen
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 276
ISBN-13: 9780691084947
ISBN-10: 0691084947
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bonner, John Tyler
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: John Tyler Bonner
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.1988
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
preigu-id: 107488561
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