Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection
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Adaptation
Algae
Amoeba
Amphibian
Arthropod
Asexual reproduction
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Bacteria
Behavior
Biologist
Biology
Brain size
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Cell division
Cell membrane
Cell signaling
Cell type
Cell wall
Charles Darwin
Chromosome
Ciliate
Cnidaria
Cyanobacteria
Cytoplasm
Developmental biology
Dictyostelium
Echinoderm
Ecology
Embryo
Embryology
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Eukaryote
Eusociality
Evolutionary biology
Fertilisation
Fungus
Gamete
Gene
Genetic drift
Herbivore
Heterochrony
Hormone
Insect
Invertebrate
Larva
Mammal
Meiosis
Meristem
Microorganism
Molecule
Multicellular organism
Mutation
Natural selection
Nematode
Organism
Paleontology
Phenotype
Pheromone
Plant
Population genetics
Predation
Prokaryote
Protein
Protoplasm
Protozoa
Receptor (biochemistry)
Reductionism
Reproductive success
Reptile
Slime mold
Sperm
Termite
Vertebrate
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- ISBN 9780691084947
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 1988
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
