Complex Organismal Functions, Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates (Dahlem Workshop Reports) - Hardcover

Wake, David B.; Roth, G.

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ISBN 10: 0471923753 ISBN 13: 9780471923756

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1989

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This is one of a series of Dahlem workshop reports, resulting from a conference held in Berlin in August 1988. Amongst the topics under discussion by the group of international scientists were egg evolution and ecological influences on the evolution of vertebrate viviparity.

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Complex Organismal Functions: Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates D. B. Wake G. Roth Editors The complexity of forms and functions of organisms studied in an evolutionary context prompts a fundamental question of modern biology: how did complex functional systems, apparently stabilized by high degrees of integration, evolve to their present diversity? This and related questions were discussed by 48 distinguished scientists from many fields of vertebrate biology, including functional and comparative morphologists, neurobiologists, reproductive biologists and endocrinologists, developmental biologists, ecologists, ethologists, population geneticists, and theorists, at a Dahlem Workshop. This volume is a report of that meeting. The major areas of discussion were: evolutionary diversification of feeding mechanisms; evolution of locomotor systems; trends in reproductive biology, especially the repeated evolution of vertebrate viviparity; and alternative and complementary concepts of the production of evolutionary novelties and patterns. These topics reflect the excitement and dynamism of current debate in evolutionary biology and constitute a cohesive point of departure for further research.

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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471923753
• ISBN 13: 9780471923756
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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